Key recommendations to Congress included:

* Spend $3 billion over 10 years in incentives for auto makers and consumers for efficient hybrid-electric and advanced diesel vehicles.

* Create mandatory program of tradable permits to limit greenhouse gas emissions while capping initial costs at $7 per metric tonne of carbon dioxide-equivalent reduction.

* Expand energy efficiency standards for new appliances, equipment and buildings.

* Encourage the construction of liquefied natural gas import facilities.

* Adopt incentives for construction of an Alaska natural gas pipeline.

* Spend $2 billion over 10 years to build one or two new advanced nuclear power facilities for demonstration purposes.

* Expand global network of strategic petroleum reserves and diversify world oil production.

* Spend $4 billion over 10 years in incentives for coal gasification technology and to capture and sequester carbon emissions.

* Spend $3 billion over 10 years to demonstrate commercial-scale carbon capture and geologic sequestration at a variety of sites.

* Increase federal funding for renewable electricity technologies by $360 million annually.

* Extend through 2009 the federal tax credit for electricity produced from non-carbon energy sources such as wind.

* Clarify rules for cost-recovery to encourage more investment in electric transmission lines and improve reliability.

* Spend $1.5 billion over 10 years to increase production of non-petroleum renewable fuels for transportation.