Posted on 03/16/2013 3:59:06 PM PDT by dennisw
Obama cast his proposal as not only a clean energy plan, but as one meant to create opportunities for economic growth.
Envisioning cars that can go 'coast to coast without using a drop of oil,' President Barack Obama on Friday urged Congress to authorize spending $2 billion over the next decade to expand research into electric cars and biofuels to wean automobiles off gasoline.
Obama, expanding on an initiative he addressed in his State of the Union speech last month, said the United States must shift its cars and trucks entirely off oil to avoid perpetual fluctuations in gas prices.
Citing policies that already require automakers to increase gas mileage, he said he expects that by the middle of the next decade, Americans will only have to fill up their cars half as often.
'We've set some achievable but ambitious goals,' Obama said, speaking at Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago.
'The only way to break this cycle of spiking gas prices the only way to break that cycle for good is to shift our cars entirely, our cars and trucks, off oil,' the president said.
Friday's speech, with its focus on energy, was designed to draw attention to what the White House says is one of Obama's top agenda items for his second term. That focus, however, has been overshadowed as the administration and Congress work on an immigration overhaul, gun legislation and deficit-reduction measures.
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OK so today an electric car can go 50 miles but in 10 years they will go 2,500 miles on a charge. Yeh thats the ticket. :-)
...urged Congress to authorize spending $2 billion over the next decade to expand research into electric cars and biofuels......and as the demand for electricity skyrockets, his incoherence is revealed in his war on coal. Seriously, he's either plain stupid, or he's an enemy of the United States.
“Not even for the bearings?”
EXACTLY!
Obama-Clueless in DC
2 billion for his friends from our taxes with a nice hefty kickback for BO and the Mooch and Valerie Jarrett.
Lost me at Obama predicts... he is a pathological liar..
Anything that comes out of his mouth is comedy.. rarely funny..
He is a stupid enough ex-choomer to believe most of this greenie BS. His first objective is to brainwash the American people but in the process he has brainwashed himself. Of course he likes stealing from taxpayers and transferring the money to his green energy campaign contributors but he likes this greenie stuff and Reggie Love told him he likes it too....and that means a lot to p_Resident JugEars
Of course our energy grid is coal dominated and fossil fuel dominated that 0bama’s theoretical millions of electric vehicles will have to tank up on
“The moron has never heard of lubricants.”
Oh yes he has. Why do you think they call him “Bath House Barry”?
He lies!
And Barney Franks will be the main source of the fairy dust.
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