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BLUEPRINT FOR CHANGE
Obama and Biden's Plan for America


AT A GLANCE

Provide Relief to Families Struggling to Pay Gas Prices

Obama and Biden will take on unregulated speculation in the energy
markets, enact a windfall profits tax on record oil company profits to
provide a $1,000 emergency energy rebate to families, and supports a
limited swap of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help bring
down prices.

Reduce Dependence on Foreign Oil
Obama and Biden will reduce oil consumption so that we will eliminate
our current imports from the Middle East and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela
within 10 years.

Create 5 Million of Green Jobs
Obama and Biden will invest $150 billion over ten years to deploy
clean technologies, protect our existing manufacturing base and create
millions of new jobs.

Tackle Climate Change
Obama and Biden will implement a cap-and-trade program to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions to the level recommended by top scientists.


THE PROBLEM

Foreign Oil
America's 20-million-barrel-a-day oil habit costs our economy over a
billion dollars a day. Every single U.S. President since Richard Nixon
has talked about reducing our dependence on foreign oil, but
Washington has failed to act.

Climate Change
As a result of climate change, glaciers are melting faster; the polar
ice caps are shrinking; trees are blooming earlier; more people are
dying in heat waves; species are migrating, and eventually many will
become extinct

Provide Short-term Relief to American Families
Enact a Windfall Profits Tax to Provide a $1,000 Emergency Energy
Rebate to American Families: Obama and Biden will enact a windfall
profits tax on excessive oil company profits to give American families
an immediate $1,000 emergency energy rebate to help families pay
rising bills. This relief would be a down payment on the Obama-Biden
long-term plan to provide middle class families with at least $1,000
per year in permanent tax relief.

Crack Down on Excessive Energy Speculation: Barack Obama and Joe Biden
will close energy industry market
loopholes and increase transparency to prevent traders from unfairly
lining their pockets, while driving up oil prices at the expense of
the American people.

Swap Oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Cut Prices: Barack
Obama and Joe Biden believe we have an economic emergency that
requires a limited, responsible swap of light oil from the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve (SPR) for heavy crude oil to help bring down prices
at the pump.

Eliminate Our Current Imports from Middle Eastern and Venezuelan Oil
within 10 Years
• Increase Fuel Economy Standards: Obama and Biden will increase fuel
economy standards 4 percent per year while providing support to
domestic automakers to invest $50 billion to retool their
manufacturing
facilities in America to produce these vehicles.
• Get 1 Million Plug-In Hybrid Cars on the Road by 2015: These
vehicles can get up to 150 miles per gallon. Barack Obama believes we
should work to ensure these cars are built here in America, instead of
factories overseas.
• Create a New $7,000 Tax Credit for Purchasing Advanced Vehicles.
• Establish a National Low Carbon Fuel Standard: Obama and Biden will
establish a National Low Carbon Fuel Standard to reduce the carbon in
our fuels 10 percent by 2020. Obama and Biden will also require 60
billion gallons of advanced biofuels to be phased into our fuel supply
by 2030.
• A "Use it or Lose It" Approach to Existing Oil and Gas Leases: Obama
and Biden will require oil companies
to develop the 68 million acres of land — over 40 million of which are
offshore — which they have already leased and are not drilling on.
• Promote the Responsible Domestic Production of Oil and Natural Gas:
An Obama-Biden administration
will establish a process for early identification of any
infrastructure obstacles/shortages or possible federal permitting
process delays to drilling in the Bakken Shale formation, the Barnett
shale formation,
and the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

Create Millions of New Green Jobs
• Ensure 10 percent of Our Electricity Comes from Renewable Sources by
2012, and 25 percent by 2025.
• Deploy the Cheapest, Cleanest, Fastest Energy Source – Energy
Efficiency: Obama and Biden will set an aggressive energy efficiency
goal—to reduce electricity demand 15 percent from projected levels by
2020.
• Weatherize One Million Homes Annually: Obama and Biden will make a
national commitment to weatherize at least one million low-income
homes each year for the next decade, which can reduce energy usage
across the economy and help moderate energy prices for all.
• Develop and Deploy Clean Coal Technology: Obama's Department of
Energy will enter into public private
partnerships to develop five "first-of-a-kind" commercial scale
coal-fired plants with clean carbon capture and sequestration
technology.
• Prioritize the Construction of the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline: As
president, Obama will work with the Canadian government, state of
Alaska, oil and gas producers, and other stakeholders to facilitate
construction of the pipeline. Not only is this pipeline critical to
our energy security, it will create thousands of new jobs.

Reduce our Greenhouse Gas Emissions 80 Percent by 2050
• Implement an Economy-wide cap-and-trade program to Reduce Greenhouse
Gas Emissions 80 percent by 2050: The Obama-Biden cap-and-trade policy
will require all pollution credits to be auctioned, and proceeds will
go to investments in a clean energy future and rebates and other
transition relief for families.
• Make the U.S. a Leader on Climate Change: Obama and Biden will
re-engage with the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC)
– the main international forum dedicated to addressing the climate
problem. They will also create a Global Energy Forum of the world's
largest emitters to focus exclusively on global energy and
environmental issues.

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