Green Thursday: Obama's New Energy for America Plan

Barack Obama’s comprehensive New Energy for America plan:

• Provide short-term relief to American families facing pain at the pump with a windfall profits tax to give American families an emergency $1,000 rebate.


• 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 Plug-In Hybrid cars -- cars that can get up to 150 miles per gallon -- on the road by 2015, cars that we will work to make sure are built here in America.


• 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.

Read the full plan HERE

Next week we'll post John McCain's strategy.

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