So, now that we have an offical president-elect, I thought I would share a bit more insight into his energy plan.
According to www.BarackObama.com, here's what he proposes to do:
Provide Short-term Relief to American Families
• Enact a Windfall Profits Tax to Provide a $1,000 Emergency Energy Rebate to American Families. • Crack Down on Excessive Energy Speculation. • Swap Oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Cut Prices.
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Eliminate Our Current Imports from the Middle East and Venezuela within 10 Years
• Increase Fuel Economy Standards. • Get 1 Million Plug-In Hybrid Cars on the Road by 2015. • Create a New $7,000 Tax Credit for Purchasing Advanced Vehicles. • Establish a National Low Carbon Fuel Standard. • A “Use it or Lose It” Approach to Existing Oil and Gas Leases. • Promote the Responsible Domestic Production of Oil and Natural Gas.
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Create Millions of New Green Jobs
• Ensure 10 percent of Our Electricity Comes from Renewable Sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025. • Deploy the Cheapest, Cleanest, Fastest Energy Source – Energy Efficiency. • Weatherize One Million Homes Annually. • Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Technology. • Prioritize the Construction of the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline.
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Reduce our Greenhouse Gas Emissions 80 Percent by 2050
• Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050. • Make the U.S. a Leader on Climate Change.
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Check out this video too - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1FIbmUL6OA
Ambitious? Yes. Achievable? Maybe. A step in the right direction. I think so.
What do you guys think of our new almost-president?
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4 comments:
YES WE CAN!
I am stoked about the decision for numerous reasons.
January couldn't come sooner.
Btw...I saw this little thing going on. And I ordered one.
It's a sticker of Shepard's "Yes We Did—Victory!" designed to remember the great Obama victory. And it's completely free, even the shipping. Want one? Just click here:
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Just thought I'd put in a shameless plug.
I hope the Obama administration goes forward with legislation to drive the US auto industry to release more fuel efficient cars. Not just for environmental reasons but to encourage investment in new technologies and to make US cars more competitive in other markets whose fuel prices are up to 5x more expensive (Norway, Denmark, and the rest of Europe in general).
Welcome to Guiyu, China the most polluted place in the world.
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Every day the US throws away 130,000 computers and every year 100 million cell phones are thrown away. They are all filled with highly toxic heavy metals like lead, mercury, and cadmium. The plastics that surround computer monitors are halogenated so that they are fire resistant. The problem is the fact that you can't get rid of it, when the plastic is burned it creates highly toxic dioxins that pollute the environment. When burned, computer plastic basically gives off Agent Orange, a well known carcinogen. All of our high tech waste is simply dumped onto 3rd world places like Guiyu and places in Africa.
If Obama really cared about the environment he would support the Basel Ban. Write to your senator to bug him or her to support the Basel Ban agreement.
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