Read full speech On Earth Day, Obama stresses clean energy
Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor
April 22, 2009 02:05 PM
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"It's estimated that if we fully pursue our potential for wind energy on land and offshore, wind can generate as much as 20 percent of our electricity by 2030 and create a quarter-million jobs in the process -- 250,000 jobs in the process, jobs that pay well and provide good benefits. It's a win-win: It's good for the environment; it's great for the economy.
Even as we pursue renewable energy from the wind and the sun and other sources, we also need a smarter, stronger electricity grid -- some of you have been hearing about this, this smart grid -- a grid that can carry energy from one end of this country to the other. So when you guys are building these amazing towers and the turbines are going up and they're producing energy, we've got to make sure that energy produced in Iowa can get to Chicago; energy produced in North Dakota can get
to Milwaukee. That's why we're making an $11 BILLION investment through the recovery plan to modernize the way we distribute electricity."
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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