Worrying that Obama supports biofuels

Chris

Oliver Tickell wrote:

>And why not? The remarkable thing here is that both Obama and McCain have
>agreed to it.
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>Meanwhile our Government is b****ing about with its Climate Bill as a
>pathetic subsitute for actually doing something. One thing about America,
>when it decides its going to do something, it bloody well does it. Nuclear
>Bombs, Liberty Ships ... some good, some bad, but none of this pathetic
>sitting on hands and half baked incomprehensible b****s that we Brits lead
>the world (like the Renewables Obligation, or the Hurd-Owen policy on the
>Balkans that gave Karadic a free hand to genocide).
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>Oliver, K2.
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>Make all US electricity from renewable sources -Al Gore
>by Reuters News on 17 July 2008, 20:37 PM   0 comments , 216 views
>Categories: Reuters News
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>By Jasmin Melvin and Deborah Zabarenko
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>WASHINGTON, July 17 (Reuters) - Al Gore, the Nobel Prize-winning crusader on
>climate change, challenged the United States on Thursday to commit to
>producing all U.S. electricity from renewable sources like solar and wind
>power in 10 years.
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>"Our dangerous over-reliance on carbon-based fuels is at the core of all
>three of these challenges -- the economic, environmental and national
>security crises," the former Democratic vice president and presidential
>candidate in 2000 told a meeting in Washington.
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>"So today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our
>electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within
>10 years," he said.
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>Gore also took aim at the Bush administration's policies on climate change,
>without mentioning the president by name. Advocates of tougher measures to
>combat global warming caused by carbon emissions have long said President
>George W. Bush has done too little about climate change.
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>Gore, who faced a smattering of protesters rallying against big government
>outside the hall, likened the fight against climate change to the successful
>challenge in the 1960s to send humans to the Moon within the decade.
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>Gore, who starred in the Academy Award-winning documentary "An Inconvenient
>Truth" about the perils of global warming, also disparaged goals set too far
>in the future.
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>"A political promise to do something 40 years from now is universally
>ignored because everyone knows it's totally meaningless. Ten years is about
>the maximum time that we as a nation can hold a steady aim and hit our
>target."
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>Bush has opposed economy-wide limits on the emission of climate-warming
>carbon dioxide. Last week, he and other leaders of the Group of Eight major
>industrialized nations offered a non-binding pledge to cut emissions 50
>percent by 2050 -- 42 years from now.
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>"WE MUST MOVE FIRST"
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>The Bush administration and the other rich nations said they could not meet
>this goal without participation from developing economies like China and
>India.
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>Gore, noting that an international climate change treaty is expected to be
>concluded by the end of the next U.S. president's first year in office,
>questioned any delay on combating global warming.
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>"It is a great error to say that the United States must wait for others to
>join us in this matter," he said. "In fact, we must move first, because that
>is the key to getting others to follow; and because moving first is in our
>own national interest."
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>Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said he supported Gore's
>challenge, and said he would fast-track investments in renewable energy like
>solar, wind and biofuels if elected. "It's a strategy that will create
>millions of new jobs that pay well and cannot be outsourced, and one that
>will leave our children a world that is cleaner and safer," he said.
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>Obama's rival in the November election, Republican candidate John McCain,
>also backed Gore's plan. "If the vice president says it's do-able, I believe
>it's do-able," he told reporters.
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>Gore said he had had conversations with Obama, McCain, and with Bob Barr,
>the Libertarian Party candidate.
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>(Additional reporting by Thomas Ferraro, Editing by Frances Kerry)
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