President Obama used his last State of the Union address Tuesday night to continue campaigning for his global warming and climate changing plans.
“Look, if anybody still wants to dispute the science around climate change, have at it,” challenged the President midway through his address. “You’ll be pretty lonely, because you’ll be debating our military, most of America’s business leaders, the majority of the American people, almost the entire scientific community, and 200 nations around the world who agree it’s a problem and intend to solve it.”
He also took credit for the cheap gasoline that’s available at the pumps, saying Americans will save nearly $8,000 at the pump in 2025 thanks to doubling the fuel efficiency of our cars and light trucks.
“But even if the planet wasn’t at stake; even if 2014 wasn’t the warmest year on record, until 2015 turned out even hotter, why would we want to pass up the chance for American businesses to produce and sell the energy of the future?” asked the President.
He pointed with pride at the “single biggest investment in clean energy” made seven years ago, explaining wind power in fields from Iowa to Texas is now cheaper than “dirtier conventional power.”
“On rooftops from Arizona to New York, solar is saving Americans tens of millions of dollars a year on their energy bills, and employs more Americans than coal—in jobs that pay better than average,” professed the President. “Meanwhile, we’ve cut our imports of foreign oil by nearly sixty percent, and cut carbon pollution more than any other country on earth. Gas under two bucks a gallon ain’t bad, either.”
He did not expound on how the nation was able to cut imports of foreign oil.
“Now we’ve got to accelerate the transition away from dirty energy. Rather than subsidize the past, we should invest in the future, especially in communities that rely on fossil fuels.”
The President said he will push to change the way oil and coal resources are managed “so that they better reflect the costs they impose on taxpayers and our planet.”
