''Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy'' is a 2007 book by Washington State Governor Jay Inslee and researcher Bracken Hendricks. Inslee first proposed an

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-scale program, designed to galvanize the nation around the urgent goal of solving the environmental and energy crises, in the ''

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'' in 2002. Eventually, Inslee co-authored ''Apollo's Fire'', in which he says that through improved federal policies, the United States can wean itself off of its dependence on foreign oil and

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, create millions of

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jobs, and stop

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. Along these lines, he has been a prominent supporter of the Apollo Alliance. In "Chapter 2: Reinventing the car", ''Apollo's Fire'' highlights innovative efforts such as CalCars, founded in 2002 to promote

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s (PHEVs), charged by off-peak electricity from

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sources, as a key to addressing oil dependence and global warming worldwide. Former U.S. president

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wrote the foreword of the book.

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A review of the book in ''

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'' described the book as an "energetic articulation of a clean-energy future." A review of the book in '' Whatcom Watch'' wrote that "First, we owe Inslee and Hendricks standing applause for undertaking the effort to collect data and write this book. For organization, background, writing and inspiration I’d give them an A+. For motivation and detailed recommendations, they still have some work to do." Michael McGinn credited the book for establishing Inslee as a "serious thinker on climate."

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