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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: quehubo who wrote (52627)3/9/2008 2:34:29 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (2) of 543090
 
Contrary to one of the posts earlier, Obama is telling people what they want to hear, not what they need to hear. He is promising everything and not saying what will be required of the citizens.

So he goes to Detroit, makes a speech to the Detroit Economic Club, and tells them that changing automobiles so that they are more fuel efficent is a large part of the answer to two of major problems we have (oil dependence and carbon emissions), and you suggest that he "is telling people what they want to hear, not what they need to hear"? Give me a break.

But here in Detroit, I want to focus on a few proposals that would drastically reduce our oil dependence and our carbon emissions by focusing on two of their major uses - the cars we drive and the fuels we use. By 2020, these proposals would save us 2.5 million barrels of oil per day - the equivalent of ending all oil imports from the Middle East and removing 50 million cars' worth of pollution off the road.

It starts with our cars - because if we truly hope to end the tyranny of oil, the nation must once again turn to Detroit for another great transformation.

I know these are difficult times for automakers, and I know that not all of the industry's problems are of its own making.

But we have to be honest about how we arrived at this point.

Full speech at barackobama.com
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