Obama: US should fund research for cleaner cars
by JOSH LEDERMAN, Associated Press
Mar 16, 2013 | 763 views | 1 1 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend | print
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the U.S. must shift cars and trucks off oil for good so the public can avoid spikes in gasoline prices.

In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama promotes a plan to direct $200 million a year into an energy security trust to fund research for alternatives like electric car batteries and biofuels. He says the trust would use revenues from federal leases on offshore drilling without adding to the deficit.

Obama says investing in clean energy will help create jobs. He's envisioning cars that can one day go coast to coast without using any oil.

In the Republican address, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin says Republicans have a plan to balance the federal budget in 10 years by cutting spending.
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dalton75
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March 16, 2013
I wonder if anybody knows how electricity is generated to charge up the electric batteries?

Coal, nuclear, hydro, oil and natural gas.

The feds had windmills torn down last year and this year due to them killing some kind of birds.

The rich folks don't want windmills off the coast of their rich people homes where the wind blows 24/7 in the ocean. The govt. won't allow for more oil refineries or oil production on federal land.

They are doing their best to eliminate natural gas production. Obama is going to give millions to his donor buddies and then come to the conclusion that ethanol will solve our problems.

Wait and see.
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