July 16, 2004
Barack Obama Firing On All Eight Cylinders
Barack Obama, running for US Sentate in Illinois, made a speech about foreign policy, where he outlined eight policy areas for renewing America's leadership in the world. Mr. Obama is a thoughtful, well informed man, and his speech is worth a read. The last, but not least, policy point was:
"Free America from its dependence on foreign oil. In an increasingly more hostile and dangerous world, neither American security, nor our economic potential, can afford to be hold hostage by those half a world away because our nation is too dependent on others for our energy. We must take concrete steps to move us toward energy independence including requiring that 20 percent of the nation’s power supply portfolio come from renewable sources like wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energy by 2020, and that a percentage of our nation’s fuel supply is provided by renewable fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel."
This opinion is currently popular in numerous opinion pieces in newspapers, news magazines, and internet blogs that I am reading, and it is one that I happen to share with Mr. Obama and others.
Posted by: jlombard at July 16, 2004 12:12 PM
Category: Policies
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