Posted on 03/16/2013 11:25:04 PM PDT by lionstar
LEMONT, Ill. (AP) 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.
Obama cast his proposal as not only a clean energy plan, but as one meant to create opportunities for economic growth.
"I want the next great job-creating breakthroughs, whether it's in energy or nanotechnology or bio-engineering , I want those breakthroughs to be right here in the United States of America, creating American jobs and maintaining our technological lead," he said.
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Your horse drawn carriage reminds me that when Al Gore was running for President, I was thinking that we would all be in the rickshaw business by the time he was done with us. Now that I’m pondering this again, perhaps the Postal Service would benefit from the resurrection of the Pony Express.
Of course pixie dust is entirely imaginary. I believe the answer is for the cars and trucks to run on air, which is real.
“Its time for Barry to start flying on Michelles broom and ground Air Force 1”
you win for the best line EVER!
“Harsh, yes, but the truth!”
Say it often, preach it louder!
Fricken MORON!
What a strange idea. Stop using something so its price won't fluctuate.
I totally agree!
I am perfecting my electrical generator that runs on the electricity it produces. I am gonna be rich beyond my wildest dreams! Not rich from my invention but rich from the $billions Obama puts into my scheme.
Ubama talks about electric cars but ignores how US will provide the required electricity.
In addition, 8-hr recharging would mean mucho down time.
Bottom line, Ubama continues his purposeful destruction of America via Alinsky and Cloward/Piven.
I hate liberals/democrats/statists , all of them
Impossible. It would be virtually impossible and so cost prohibitive that all the money on earth couldn’t pay for the research, the implementation or especially the upkeep. This country is full of morons.
He is an idiot. He is against fluctuations in prices. Maybe he can protect us from that too/ He just can’t protect us from fluctuations in supply. ;(
The biggest user of diesel in the world is the US Military, and most leaps in technology get their start as US Military orders. No government worker, no matter how smart, is going to solve the biodiesel puzzle. Government jobs always become red tape affirmative 3-day weekend pretend jobs. But give the military enough funding and hire the brightest minds to solve the puzzle and they will. Since 2/3rds of Earth's surface is saltwater the obvious solution is genetically optimized saltwater algae, which is exactly where all the original energy in petroleum came from anyway. The biggest risk though is how to keep such algae from going Kudzu and covering the oceans with a 10 foot deep oil slick and sucking all of the CO2 plant food out of the air.
It’s not about clean energy. It’s about total control.
They dream about seizing the oil companies. But they can’t do it just yet.
He’s still a moron for bowling a 37.
“I want...”
FYBO
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