California Energy Chief Calls Brown’s Fuel Target a ‘Moon Shot’
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California Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to cut the state’s use of petroleum for transportation in half by 2030 will be “tough” to reach, the chair of the state’s energy policy and planning agency said on Friday.
“The governor certainly envisioned this much more as a moon shot type of goal,” Robert Weisenmiller, chair of the California Energy Commission, said during an interview in Berkeley. “He didn’t set any of these as the no-brainer easy goals. If anything, the question is which is the toughest.”