Obama first video address tops YouTube
Listed as the most viewed video of the day on YouTube. Obama’s first weekly address (now a video rather than radio address) to the nation outlines his recovery spending plan for the nation. Pending the passage of the bill, details and updates on the program will be found at the new Recovery.gov website.
Highlights of the program include a 3-year plan to double alternative energy production, three thousand miles of new power lines (I suspect many of those will be from the new distributed power sources), energy efficiencies for federal buildings and weatherizing 2.5 million homes. There is a 5-year plan to computerize medial records, and a stopgap measure for healthcare coverage of the newly unemployed.
Everything is available from The White House website. Remember: if it’s created by the US government, it’s either classified or it’s public domain.
I just read the best book ever called The Manhattan Project of 2009 by Jeff Wilson. After a brief reprieve gas prices are on their way back up. OPEC has vowed to cut production until they achieve their desired 80-100. per barrel. It would cost the equivalent of 60 cents per gallon to charge and drive an electric car. The electricity to charge the car could come from solar or wind generated electricity. If all gasoline cars, trucks, and SUV’s instead had plug-in electric drive trains, the amount of electricity needed to replace gasoline is about equal to the estimated wind energy potential of the state of North Dakota. Oil is finite. We are using it globally at the rate of 2 X faster than new oil is being discovered. India and China are expected to put 3 million more vehicles on their highways within the next 20 years. We have so much available to us , wind, solar, hybrid technology and bio fuels. We need to invest in America. We need to get on with becoming an energy independent nation. http://www.themanhattanprojectof2009.com
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