Friday January 27, 2012
Picture Courtesy of CNN
The two Ford Escape Taxis behind the President in the picture are taxi's that World CNG converted to cng here in our Kent location and shipped to Las Vegas. Yesterday, the President spoke at a UPS Fleet facility in Las Vegas Nevada and in Colorado at a military base. While we aren't the biggest fans of our current president, we do stand behind him on this issue as it applies to clean energy because it not only makes our earth a cleaner place but it benefits the future of our company and it's objectives. Here's a few quotes from Obama's speech he gave yesterday:
"We are the Saudi Arabia of natural gas," he told the military crowd in detailing his strategy to increase domestic oil and gas development while promoting investment and innovation in clean energy development."
"We've got to keep at it. Think about what could happen if we do," Obama said. "Think about an America where more cars and trucks are running on domestic natural gas than on foreign oil. Think about an America where our companies are leading the world in developing natural gas technology and creating a generation of new energy jobs. ... We can do this."
"We should do more, though,” the president said. “That's why we're here today. First, let's get more of these natural gas vehicles on the road. The federal fleet of cars is leading by example. Turns out the federal government has a lot of cars. We buy a lot of cars.” Obama also called for the Energy Department to launch a new contest “that encourages our country’s brightest scientists and engineers and entrepreneurs to discover new breakthroughs for natural gas vehicles.”
Also in the President's state of the Union Address he gave praise to American-made energy and specifically called for the development of natural gas:
“Nowhere is the promise of innovation greater than in American-made energy. Over the last three years, we’ve opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration, and tonight, I’m directing my Administration to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources. Right now, American oil production is the highest that it’s been in eight years. That’s right – eight years. Not only that – last year, we relied less on foreign oil than in any of the past sixteen years.
But with only 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves, oil isn’t enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy – a strategy that’s cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs.
We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly one hundred years, and my Administration will take every possible action to safely develop this energy. Experts believe this will support more than 600,000 jobs by the end of the decade. And I’m requiring all companies that drill for gas on public lands to disclose the chemicals they use. America will develop this resource without putting the health and safety of our citizens at risk.
The development of natural gas will create jobs and power trucks and factories that are cleaner and cheaper, proving that we don’t have to choose between our environment and our economy. And by the way, it was public research dollars, over the course of thirty years, that helped develop the technologies to extract all this natural gas out of shale rock – reminding us that Government support is critical in helping businesses get new energy ideas off the ground. What’s true for natural gas is true for clean energy. In three years, our partnership with the private sector has already positioned America to be the world’s leading manufacturer of high-tech batteries. Because of federal investments, renewable energy use has nearly doubled. And thousands of Americans have jobs because of it.”
