Obama’s New Energy for America Plan combines the economy and the environment in an ambitious, but long-term plan to heal both. Biden and Obama aim to do this through providing "short term relief to Americans…facing pain at the pump" and investing in renewable energy sources, (ensuring that "10% of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012, and 25% by 2050"). This goal aspires to end our dependence on foreign oil – seeking to save more oil within the next 10 years than we currently import from the Middle East and Venezuela combined, and investing 150 billion over the next 10 years in private efforts "to build a clean future." Another goal is to put 1 million Plug-In Hybrid cars (that get 150 mpg) on the roads by 2015, cars that will be built in America, as one component of the plan to provide 5 million new jobs. Lastly, the New Energy for America plan hopes to "Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050."
From http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/newenergy
Sunday, November 9, 2008
About the New Energy for American poll
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My opinion is that Obama's plan will work but not fast enough to keep the opposition's mouth shut. There is a lot that he can do and he has a lot to work with. The most important asset he has at this time is the trust of the American people. Also, he has a wide array of resources that he can tap into, or reform. The resource that he can tap into would be giving institutions of learning the funding they need to focus into alternate fuel supplies, and hence creating the solution right here. He could also use the existing Bush tax credit plan of offering tax breaks to those who buy an SUV, and turn into a tax break for Hybrids. But in order to make this successful, I think, he should reform gas stations and make them more accessible to Hybrid vehicles. Within all that I have mentioned there are so many areas that could produce jobs that it would completely alter the American mood from one of recession to one of mirth. I think that Obama could be the next FDR, but he, unlike FDR, does not have twelve years to do this.
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