Detail Recyled; Barack Obama's Energy Policy   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 399 no. 8727 (Apr. 2011), page 36-37. Topik: Energy Policy; Political Behavior Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.65 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel For 40-odd years now, as Barack Obama lamented on March 30th, American politicians have banged on endlessly about the evils of America's dependence on imported oil, without doing very much about it. It was time, he declared, to change that, with a package of initiatives that would cut America's oil imports by a third within a decade, according to the White House's calculations. Unfortunately, however, Mr Obama's scheme seems doomed to go the same way as all the brave talk from his predecessors, not to mention his own rhetoric on the campaign trail. The clean-energy standard was first wheeled out in Mr Obama's state-of-the-union speech in January, and is anyway only a rehashed version of a much older proposal to promote renewable energy, with nuclear power and natural gas bolted on to broaden its appeal. The administration was already working on a fresh series of ever more demanding fuel-efficiency standards for vehicles for when the current lot run out in 2016. Mr Obama had also previously pledged to nurture growth in domestic oil production, to counter Republican cries of "Drill, baby, drill." Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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