"Creating a new energy economy isn't just a challenge to meet, it's an opportunity to seize -- an opportunity that will create new businesses, new industries, and millions of new jobs.... In just a few years, we can watch cars that run on a plug-in battery come off the same assembly lines that once produced the first Ford and the first Chrysler. We can see shuttered factories open their doors to manufacturers that sell wind turbines and solar panels that will power our homes and our businesses. We can watch as millions of new jobs with good pay and good benefits are created for American workers, and we can take pride as the technologies, and discoveries, and industries of the future flourish in the United States of America. We can lead the world, secure our nation, and meet our moral obligations to future generations." -- Barack Obama, August 4th, 2008
"Creating a new energy economy isn't just a challenge to meet, it's an opportunity to seize -- an opportunity that will create new businesses, new industries, and millions of new jobs.
... In just a few years, we can watch cars that run on a plug-in battery come off the same assembly lines that once produced the first Ford and the first Chrysler. We can see shuttered factories open their doors to manufacturers that sell wind turbines and solar panels that will power our homes and our businesses. We can watch as millions of new jobs with good pay and good benefits are created for American workers, and we can take pride as the technologies, and discoveries, and industries of the future flourish in the United States of America. We can lead the world, secure our nation, and meet our moral obligations to future generations." -- Barack Obama, August 4th, 2008
For decades, Washington has ignored the energy crisis, imperiling our economy, our security and our planet. Now President Obama is committed to a comprehensive energy plan that will generate millions of clean energy jobs, while breaking our dependence on foreign oil and reducing the threat of pollution.
• The President’s energy policy will jump-start the creation of an American Clean Energy sector that will create millions of clean energy jobs. This sector will create good jobs at good wages in research for new technologies, for skilled workers who weatherize our homes and buildings, and for workers in the factories that manufacture wind turbines. These are good jobs that cannot be shipped overseas.
• Investments in a new American Clean Energy sector are critical to restoring America’s role as a global leader in the clean energy industry. American businesses need these investments now to compete with companies in Asia and Europe whose countries are ahead of the United States in making aggressive investments in clean energy. Rather than sending billions overseas to pay for these technologies, we can start investing these dollars here in American jobs and innovation.
• We must make investments in clean and alternative energy sources that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil and begin making America energy independent. Investments in solar power, wind energy and bio-fuels will not only create clean energy jobs, they are also an important element in securing our economic and national security.
• As part of this comprehensive energy policy we must also take aggressive steps to crack down on corporations that pollute our rivers and streams, the water we drink and the air we breathe. These steps will also help to finally tackle global warming and its potentially catastrophic effects. It’s important to remember that our approach to energy policy and attacking pollution and the effects of global warming are two sides of the same coin.
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