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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He lives in a dream world.
He is getting the highest quality of dope isn’t he!
Obama is full of gas, and it’s fluctuating. When is the gas explosion leveling his neighbourhood?
It will be able to go through all 57 states!
Only KY jelly, obviously.
Communism is rearing its ugly head America.Once God is driven from the schools then there will be no stopping them.
“Its possible, after all, Obama walks around with not one brain cell in his head”
Yes, I understand he has S for B’s
We had a Japanese car that could do that - never consumed a drop of oil between changes...even if you drove across the country.
“Of course he knows that is all bullshit.”
Yes, but far too many of the idiots will still buy it!
“You can fill a gas tank in 5 minutes and the drive 300 miles. It takes hours to charge a battery.......”
So the Marxists will simply say that you have to lower your expectations to traveling no more than 300 miles a day. Gee, won’t the truckers like that!
Flux Capacitor. Let’s go Marty
Not soon enough.
I can visualize it, they would also cut down on the obesity in this country........Two birds from one stoner
“...spending $2 billion over the next decade...”
I wonder which one of his friends that will be going to?
Liberalism (communism) is truly a mental disease....
And this clown is well down the road....
And to think this moron has the nuclear codes.....scary!!
$2 Billion....Let me tell you what these projects ACTUALLY do. You can’t get at the money until you allocate it to something. You allocate it to you buddies, they get huge bonuses, kick back a bunch to you in the form of contributions, then they file for bankruptcy.
I hope that wood isn’t treated with creosote. :) Or any other oil based stain.
You are way off. Those tires utilize oil. I also hope those threads are not polyester either.
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