Obama wants $150 BILLION toward Green-Collar Jobs, Clinton only $50 BILLION - Vote Obama

[Dems Will Win]

HILLARY:

Creating a $50 Billion Strategic Energy Fund and Demand that Oil Companies Invest in Clean Energy --

In 2005, Exxon Mobil's CEO told Congress that his company's investment in alternative energy technologies over the prior decade was "negligible." Hillary believes it is time for oil companies to do their share in funding clean energy technologies. She would give oil companies a choice: invest more in renewable energy technology or pay into a Strategic Energy Fund. The Strategic Energy Fund would also eliminate oil company tax breaks and make sure that oil companies pay their fair share in royalties when drilling on public lands. This fund would jumpstart a clean energy future by injecting $50 billion over ten years into research, development and deployment of renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean coal technology, ethanol and other homegrown biofuels.

OBAMA:

Sen. Barack Obama has made an aggressive carbon cap-and-trade program the centerpiece of his energy and environmental agenda. He intends to raise $150 billion over 10 years from the auctioning of carbon pollution credits, and using the money to fund a variety of initiatives to boost energy efficiency, new alternative energy sources and fuels, and the revolutionizing of the American auto industry.

The Plan: Obama would enact a $150 billion, 10-year plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 80% and invest in renewable and alternative energy technology, including biofuels and clean coal.

How He'd Pay for It: An auction of carbon credits from a cap-and-trade greenhouse gas pollution regulation.

What Sets Him Apart: Creation of an independent, private Clean Technologies Deployment Venture Capital Fund, funded with $10 billion for five years, to invest in technology development.

http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/Barack-Obama-green-vote-47102504

OBAMA SOUNDS ABOUT 3 TIMES BETTER, NO?

[babylonsister]

1. Link? nt

[bellasgrams]

2. As usual Hillary leads the way and BO says me too, then ups her

one. He's never had an original idea,except to play dirty, and even then he takes his lessons from KKKarl Rove.

[sandnsea]

6. "by far one of the most.. knowledgeable politicians"

"After getting a law degree from Harvard, Obama became a civil-rights lawyer and then in 1996 was elected to the Illinois state senate, representing the 13th district on Chicago's South Side, where he distinguished himself as a leader on environmental and public-health issues. In 2003, Obama was one of six state senators to receive a 100 Percent Environmental Voting Record Award from the Illinois Environmental Council.

His efforts on behalf of the environment have been so consistent and comprehensive, in fact, that LCV and the Sierra Club endorsed Obama in his bid for Congress this year over half a dozen other Democrats competing in the primary. Last month, the LCV named him a 2004 Environmental Champion, one of 18 sitting and prospective members of Congress to receive the award.

Obama is "by far one of the most compelling and knowledgeable politicians on the environment I've ever sat in a room with," Mark Longabaugh, senior vice president for political affairs at LCV, told Muckraker. "I've been playing national politics for more than 20 years and I quite literally can't remember one person I've met -- even on a national level -- who was more in command of facts, more eloquent, and more passionate on these issues than Sen. Obama."

http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2004/08/04/griscom-obama/index.html

[Cha]

7. You're post is so fulla bs

..one would think you had no clue in the entire Universe.

[jlake]

3. Yeah, it's better to copy Hillary's idea and make it more expensive without funding it....

or is it just a con job?

[ExtraGriz]

4. dont worry...

his top level campaign staff already contacted the greenhouse gas pollution regulator, and told them its only rhetoric for the campaign season.

[FrenchieCat]

5. You mean, Hillary staff member contacted and stated that they were with

the Obama campaign. After that phone call, same staff member sent another picture of Obama to Drudge; this time in his underwear. :eyes:

[Cha]

8. Green collar jobs!

I love it..Welcome to the 21st century turnaround..thanks Al Gore!

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. They'll get $0.

It's all going to Iraq, after that it'll be "belt tightening" like we haven't seen since the post-Vietnam war.

[Petrushka]

10. Obama's plan says nothing about "$150 billion towards green-collar jobs" . . .

. . . although it does provide for the inclusion of more corporate welfare to the coal industry.

Clean coal = Green-collar jobs??? :thumbsdown:




http://www.ohvec.org