From The Hart Energy Conference Team:   conferences@hartenergy.com

The defensive line-up of speakers on what tomorrow holds for what is defined as the energy industry.

• Dr. Pierce Riemer, Director General; World Petroleum Council
• Chet France, Director, Assessment & Standards Division, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, US EPA
• Dr. Mat Malladi, President, Corporate Business Development; Reliance Industries Ltd.
• Donald L. Paul, President and Managing Director; Energy and Technology Strategies; Chief Technology Officer, Chevron (retired)
• Robert H. McCooey, Jr., Senior Vice President of New Listings and Capital Markets; NASDAQ OMX
• Richard W. Hamilton, President and CEO; Ceres, Inc.
• Sergio Baron, Commercial Manager; Petrobras America Inc.
• Tom Stricker, Director of Technical and Regulatory Affairs; Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
• Dr. James A. Spearot, Director of the Chemical and Environmental Sciences Laboratory, Research and Development Center; General Motors
• Peter Prout, Director of Government Relations, Federal and State Environmental Affairs; Volvo Group North America
• John F. Mizroch, Acting Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, US DOE
• Faith Goodman, Vice President, Ontario Division; Canadian Petroleum Products Institute
• William M. Ferretti, PhD, Vice President and Special Assistant to the Chairman; Chicago Climate Exchange
• John Tombari, Vice President North & South America, Schlumberger Carbon Services
• Dr. Edward Morse, Chief Energy Economist; Lehman Brothers
• Scott D. Deatherage, Partner and Leader of Climate Change and Renewable Energy Practice Group; Thompson & Knight
• John McNamara, Senior Director, Corporate Services; Thomson Reuters
• Michael Pacheco, Vice President of Midwest Research Institute; National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• John W. Autrey, CEO; Texas BioDiesel Corporation
• John Hyman, Executive Director; Texas Independent Cattlemen’s Association
• Matthew Koch, Washington Representative, American Petroleum Institute

At www.SustainabiliTank.info we have no bone with the above line-up, but we hope that coming 2009 the subject will expand to hold many more factors, and the Administration in Washington will go well beyond thinking that the Governor of Alaska is an energy specialist.

Further, we do actually commend Fred Potter, and his organization, for including Renewable Energy in his line-up, but we would have picked for this part some foreign speakers that could have told the mainly Texas Oil audience of what the expectations are World-Wide. Also, bringing in Toyota and Volvo seems to be a sign of strength - and we hope that GM and Ford will find something to learn here. Anyone heard of electric cars?