Type: News
Source: DOE (Solar)
Date: Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
President Obama highlighted clean energy on February twelve during his State of the Union address to Congress, and challenged to nation to become even more energy efficient. During the speech marking the start of his 2nd term of office, President Obama spotlighted a range of clean energy topics, including cars and transportation, energy efficiency, manufacturing, and wind and solar energy. He called for continued national investment into research, saying "now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race. And today, no area holds more promise than our investments in American energy." He added, "we are finally poised to control our own energy future."
The President Obama cited advances in wind and solar energy during the past 4 years, a period which began as "other countries dominated the clean energy market and the jobs that came with it." He noted that conditions in the clean energy market are changing for the better in the United States. "Last year, wind energy added nearly half of all new power capacity in America. So let's generate even more. Solar energy gets cheaper by the year-so let's drive costs down even further."
President Obama also heralded new manufacturing initiatives by announcing the launch of 3 more manufacturing hubs where businesses will partner with the Departments of Energy and Defense "to turn regions left behind by globalization into global centers of high-tech jobs." He said he is asking Congress to help create a network of 15 of these hubs to ensure a manufacturing evolution. As an indicator of progress, President Obama affirmed that now "we buy more American cars than we have in 5 years, and less foreign oil than we have in 20." Furthermore, he noted that those cars are more fuel efficient. "We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas," he said.
As he cited the benefits of reduced dependence on foreign oil, particularly the decline in carbon pollution as result of increased renewable energy usage, he challenged the nation to become even more energy efficient. "I'm also issuing a new goal for America: let's cut in half the energy wasted by our homes and businesses over the next 20 years." See the full text of the State of the Union on the White House website.
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