RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – The Heavy Duty Manufacturers Association (HDMA) has announced that Robert Bryce, author of “Power Hungry: The Myths of ‘Green’ Energy," will serve as the keynote presenter at the first annual Off-Highway Outlook Conference (OHOC), to be held Oct. 1 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Ill. The conference is being presented by both HDMA and SAE International, and immediately precedes SAE/ComVec.
 
Bryce will present a segment titled “An Energy Discussion — Fuels of the Future,” as one of several presentations taking place at OHOC in 2012.
 
“We are very pleased to have Robert Bryce, critically acclaimed author and journalist, as our keynote speaker," said Tim Kraus, president and chief operating officer of the Heavy Duty Manufacturers Association. “Mr. Bryce brings a different perspective to the energy debate currently happening in the U.S., and his opinions of the industry and the fuels that will drive our economy will bring lively discussion to the Off-Highway Outlook Conference. Robert Bryce is one of America’s most prominent energy journalists according to critics. His articles have appeared in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, and Washington Post."
 
Signed copies of Bryce’s fourth book, “Power Hungry: The Myths of ‘Green’ Energy," will be given to the first 100 people to register for OHOC. A review in the Wall Street Journal described "Power Hungry" as “unsentimental, unsparing and impassioned; and, if you’ll excuse the pun, it is precisely the kind of journalism we need to hold truth to power.” The Washington Times said Bryce’s “magnificently unfashionable, superlatively researched new book dares to fly in the face of all current conventional wisdom and cant.”