Obama’s Wish List for Energy [View all]

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"The Energy Department’s budget request for the fiscal year that begins on Oct. 1 sounds a familiar theme. 'The United States is competing in a global race for the clean energy jobs of the future,' a cover letter from the federal energy secretary, Steven Chu, says.

'Do we want the clean energy technologies of tomorrow to be invented in America by American innovators, made by American workers and sold around the world?' he writes. 'Or do we want to concede those jobs to our competitors?'

Yet the $27.2 billion budget request itself is mostly about nuclear energy. It calls for $7.6 billion for a 'safe, secure' stockpile of weapons, $2.5 billion for nonproliferation efforts and $5.7 billion for the continuing struggle to clean up the environmental effects of weapons manufacturing dating back to the Manhattan Project and the cold war."

http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/obamas-wish-list-for-energy/