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Key aspects of Obama's energy policy
The key elements of this strategy will include massive investment in renewable energy, including wind and solar; a rapid retooling of the U.S. automobile industry to manufacture highly fuel-efficient vehicles with a bias toward plug-ins; the creation of a digital electrical grid; investments in high-speed rail; and an aggressive carbon cap-and-trade program. - Read More
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Increasing fuel efficiency in cars Obama's priority
"most important steps that we can take ..We will start by implementing new standards for model year 2011, so that we use less oil... reduce our dependence on foreign oil...Congress, has passed legislation to increase standards to at least 35 miles per gallon by 2020. That 40 % increase in fuel efficiency could save over 2 million barrels of oil every day" ..nearly the amount of oil that US imports from the Persian Gulf. - Read More
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Topics : Energy Efficiency
Post 2012 global climate change policy regime
Such a regime is expected to be established in the Copenhagen conference in 2009
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Topics : Climate