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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mel221 who wrote (122462)	10/3/2012 8:15:47 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

If the US was trying to green up as fast as China is, I wouldn't be knocking us. "It probably has more to do with the amount of imports from China " No;, we imported from China in '11 and '10 and '07 and... Has to do with a continued drop in vehicle miles traveled, an slight increase in overall fleet mileage, very cheap natural gas replacing coal, burning 2 M BPD of oil less than we were in '08, and the fact that renewable use is slowly growing like Topsy. Renewable Electricity Nearly Doubles Under Obama: ‘I Think They’re The Future. They’re Worth Fighting For’ == Debunking The Supposed Decline In Clean Energy Here’s a surprising new fact about energy in the United States: the percentage of our electricity coming from the greenest sources — that is, the non-hydroelectric renewables such as solar, wind, geothermal and biomass — has doubled in just four years to nearly 6 percent.