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Obama's Energy Plan: Overview

How will Obama's New Energy for America plan create five million new jobs and revitalize a clean energy economy? Here's an overview.

According to the Obama administration, the comprehensive New Energy for America plan will:

  • Help create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future.
  • Within 10 years save more oil than we currently import from the Middle East and Venezuela combined.
  • Put 1 million American-made Plug-In Hybrid cars on the road by 2015.
  • Ensure 10 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025.
  • Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050.

Energy Plan Overview

Provide Short-term Relief to American Families

  • Crack Down on Excessive Energy Speculation.
  • Swap Oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Cut Prices.

Eliminate Our Current Imports from the Middle East and Venezuela within 10 Years

  • Increase Fuel Economy Standards.
  • Get 1 Million Plug-In Hybrid Cars on the Road by 2015.
  • Create a New $7,000 Tax Credit for Purchasing Advanced Vehicles.
  • Establish a National Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
  • A “Use it or Lose It” Approach to Existing Oil and Gas Leases.
  • Promote the Responsible Domestic Production of Oil and Natural Gas.

Create Millions of New Green Jobs

  • Ensure 10 percent of Our Electricity Comes from Renewable Sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025.
  • Deploy Energy Efficiency, which the administration acknowledges as "the Cheapest, Cleanest, Fastest Energy Source."
  • Weatherize One Million Homes Annually.
  • Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Technology.
  • Prioritize the Construction of the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline.

Reduce our Greenhouse Gas Emissions 80 Percent by 2050

  • Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050.
  • Make the U.S. a Leader on Climate Change.

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"Deploy Energy Efficiency."

There it is, a statement as declarative and straight forward as any of the other items in the Obama Administration’s energy plan. Thanks to Denis Du Bois, managing editor of Energy Priorities magazine for outlining the plan. Now hear this: my complaint is not with Mr. Du Bois, nor is it with the Obama Administration. And I am all for energy efficiency. I wince at the innocence implied by the word “deploy”—especially as it applies to the industrial sector.

Please see more at http://energypathfinder.blogspot.com/2009/01/obamas-energy-plan-where-intention.html

I am trying to see where in the Obama Energy Plan increased natural gas energy efficiency is mentioned. All that is talked about is electricity and how it is produced.
U.S. industrial powerhouses consume about 18 quadrillion btu's anually and only 60% of this purchased energy performes useful work.
Much of that waste energy can be recaptured economically.
Our Federal government is the largest consumer of energy in the world. There is so much waste that can be recovered and utilized.
Include in the program to increase natural gas energy efficiency. The technology is called "Condensing flue gas heat recovery"

Developing a revolutionary wind energy converter that DOES overcome inefficiencies in electrical production by current products, eliminates costly battery banks, and is cost justifiable in 3-5 years is available, as defined by the Apple Hearth endeavor,,,,,IF the GOVT cuts some Red Tape and invests in real time development for THIS revolutionary product

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