President Obama's energy plan would create green gold rush

[FrenchieCat]

Barack Obama is a transformational figure in American history who's been able to excite the same intensity of feeling among Americans as I saw during my father's 1968 campaign and my uncle John F. Kennedy's 1960 campaign.

As a six-year-old, I attended the Democratic Convention in 1960 and traveled across the country in the Caroline K .

The excitement I saw then is echoed today as Barack Obama outlines his plans to get the nation moving in the right direction, to restore America's role as an exemplary nation.

America's dependence on carbon to produce energy has eroded our economic power, destroyed our moral authority, diminished our international influence and prestige, endangered our national security, and marred our health and landscapes. It is subverting everything we value.

A sophisticated, well-crafted energy policy designed to de-carbonize America is the centerpiece of Sen. Barack Obama's domestic economic package.

It will sharpen our competitiveness by reducing our energy costs, dramatically reduce our national debt, stimulate our economy far more effectively than tax cuts by putting conservation savings in the hands of every American, and be the engine for creating millions of green-collar jobs that cannot be outsourced.

Obama understands, as John McCain does not, that an intelligent energy policy is also the natural fulcrum for U.S. foreign policy and national security. As Obama has warned, "One of the most dangerous weapons in the world today is the price of oil. We ship nearly $700 million a day to unstable or hostile nations for their oil. It pays for terrorist bombs going off from Baghdad to Beirut."
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/25/kennedy.energy/index.html#cnnSTCText

[Cha]

1. Green Collar Workers, Baby..that's the Future!

[City Lights]

8. ...

:thumbsup:

[Cha]

12. :)

I got a Barack rock when I was in Georgia a week ago. They had a gem store in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia and I saw this agate with a Yellow-Gold round design in it like the Sun with a white cloud encircling it and it was totally like an Obama logo to me!

I got a bunch of semi precious stones and the owner wrapped them all in newspapers..when I got back to the condo in my sister's car I looked down and saw he had wrapped my agate in a newspaper(The Atlantic-Journal Constitution from July 16th) with Obama's pic facing toward me:wow:

:hi:

[City Lights]

13. A "Barack rock." Love it!

And wrapped in Barack paper to boot! Cool! :hi:

[ContinentalOp]

2. Great article! This is the thing that excites me about Obama the most.

I have long thought that we need a green initiative on the scale of the mission to the moon. As Buckminster Fuller said, mankind's two greatest achievements have been putting a man on the moon and building the atomic bomb: both military projects or what he called "killingry." If we put those same kind of resources toward "livingry" such as green energy, ending world hunger, curing cancer or aids... there's no limit to what we could accomplish. All it takes is the vision and the political will to make something like that possible.

Bring on the Design-Science Revolution!

[liberal N proud]

3. We do need another gold rush

Rush = more jobs, jobs that would be difficult to outsource

[FrenchieCat]

4. Yes we do. This country needs inspiration!

Sometimes I believe people forget why Obama is running.

[Cha]

5. Thanks for reminding

us with this article. I got excited for a second last night when I heard someone(?) talking about "the new Green Collar jobs". Was it Michelle?

[FrenchieCat]

7. Michelle was superb.....

and people here who are panicking about every fucking thing are a disservice to the campaign.

We could change the nation, but we need to believe we can. I do. You do. And this is why one of the mottos of this campaign is "Yes, we can!"

[Cha]

11. That's right..it's YES WE CAN.

not .."uh, maybe":silly:

[AZBlue]

6. I'd like to see them focus on this point more.

[FrenchieCat]

9. I think that Obama does......

It's just that what he says about it doesn't seem to be as important as the latest poll, and what Hillary didn't say, and what Bill might say.

[City Lights]

10. Great article. Thanks FrenchieCat.

Recommended.

[Born_A_Truman]

14. Hope we look into Oilgae

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8298456592372641428&ei=d2u0SNnmA6ayqAOq4OTCDA&q=algae&vt=lf&hl=en">Oilgae