A Green Economy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtucMChsok4&feature=related
Barack Obama has some very strong opinions when it comes to the way the current administration has handled the issue of global warming. At a town hall meeting in Portsmouth New Hampshire he shared these views with the residence. In one of his opening remarks he explained that while Vice President Cheney has been “working” on the issue, “Cheney [has] met with the environmental groups once he met with the renewable energy groups once he met with the oil and gas companies forty times.” It is based on these numbers that Obama believes all the attempts at progress have failed because they are too focused on the oil companies and not on the people. One of his strongest points was that changing political parties in the White House is not going to be enough, there needs to be a complete change of mindset in Washington, D.C., one that will allow for progress to be made.
If Obama is to be elected, he plans to place bigger taxes on companies when they go over their new limits of how many greenhouse gasses they are allowed to release. He plans to meet even more with car companies and change regulations on the cars. One comment he made said, “If we increase fuel efficiency standards on cars to 40miles per gallon we would save the equivalent of all the oil we import from the Persian Gulf.”
To help the troubled economy, Obama believes that working toward green energy will help greatly. It will create new jobs and lower gas bills allowing the consumer to have more money to spend in other ways as opposed to giving it to oil and gas companies.
All in all Obama’s plan seems to be the “golden ticket” the question then becomes, is it possible? For that answer we’re just going to have to wait a little over six short months.