Jonathan Axelrad: What's the Real Cost of Oil? February 24, 2012

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Complete video at http://fora.tv/2012/02/12/Jewish_Response_to_the_Energy_Challenge

Jonathan Axelrad, VP and Energy Security Task Force Co-Chair of AJC, Northern California, discusses the myriad problems created by our reliance on fossil fuels. Oil is harmful to the environment, but Axelrad shows that it also creates a situation where U.S. oil consumption funds "both sides on the war on terror."

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Jonathan Axelrad is a lawyer in Wilson Sonsini's San Francisco office, where his practice focuses on representing clean technology and renewable energy companies and venture capital and private equity funds that invest in them. Prior to moving to San Francisco, Axelrad lived in Washington, DC, where he worked for an environmental group on a national campaign to educate the American public about possible solutions to combat global warming and for Representative Jay Inslee and the Energy and Commerce Committee on issues related to climate change, energy, the environment and international trade.