Another Step Towards Securing Our Future in Energy
This morning, President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum on fuel efficiency standards, an initiative that will build on his goal to move towards improved fuel economy for vehicles. The signing comes a year after he made a historic agreement to break America’s dependence on foreign oil and create clean energy jobs.
The President explained that one year later, we are already beginning to see the results of that goal. The Presidential Memorandum signed today will take another step forward by proposing the development of a national standard for larger heavy-duty trucks. The Memorandum directs the Department of Transportion and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a first-ever National Policy to increase fuel efficiency and decrease greenhouse gas pollution from medium- and heavy-duty trucks for Model Years 2014-2018. Trucks consume more than two million barrels of ail every day and emit 20% of all transportation related greenhouse gas pollution, and the new standard is expected to bring down costs for transporting goods while reducing pollution and spurring growth in the clean energy sector.
The President explained that this is a matter of global importance:
We know how important that is. We know that our dependence on foreign oil endangers our security and our economy. We know that climate change poses a threat to our way of life -– in fact we’re already seeing some of the profound and costly impacts. And the disaster in the Gulf only underscores that even as we pursue domestic production to reduce our reliance on imported oil, our long-term security depends on the development of alternative sources of fuel and new transportation technologies.
But we also know that our economic future depends on our leadership in the industries of the future. Around the globe, countries are seeking an advantage in the global marketplace by investing in new ways of producing and saving energy. From China to Germany, these countries recognize that the nation that leads in the clean energy economy will lead the global economy. And I want America to be that nation.
President Barack Obama delivers remarks in the Rose Garden of the White House before signing a Presidential Memorandum outlining the next steps in his vision for cleaner, more efficient vehicles,
I assume not .
For single citizens today are sick in the way this country is run especially the younger generation .
Second there is known as a growing number of many people who are just sick to death with screaming A hole empty brained people today like Palin . Our congress is full of these old time mindless idiots that are rapidly dieing off or are going being voted out .
Obama needs to get within the ball as he promised switch for us but has not delivered a point besides the health care so i give him credit for that. A whole lot more and further individuals are against the left and suitable today i assume we will make our personal transform .
We will want laws but we do not desire laws that are only fine for that wealthy and that’s where government lays in bed with . I imagine its time to boot them all out this time around and commence out fresh .
I’ll type slooooowly so you’ll appreciate. All you might have to carry out is find alternate energy to run cars the way we do with oil and then we’ll all use it. See how that performs? Why are you whining at conservatives? Come up with the energy — we’ll use it.