“Let’s put every single member of congress on record…..You can keep subsidizing a fossil fuel that’s been getting taxpayer dollars for a century, …. or you can place your bets on a clean energy future.”
“Let’s put every single member of congress on record…..You can keep subsidizing a fossil fuel that’s been getting taxpayer dollars for a century, …. or you can place your bets on a clean energy future.”
It sounds so obvious when he puts it like that!
This decision is long overdue. It is one thing to give subsidies (for a limited time) to a new industry, but the petroleum industry has been pumping oil out of the ground since 1861.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_Springs,_Ontario
Why couldn’t he have been like this in 2009? Is this the Obama that the people elected or just the alter-ego that pops up when he’s campaigning?