Efficient Energy: US president calls for more investment

Obama renews call for developing new technologies that would shift American cars and trucks off petroleum gas.

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Saturday renewed his call for developing new technologies that would reduce dependence on fossil fuels and shift American cars and trucks off petroleum gas.

“The only way we’re going to break this cycle of spiking gas prices for good is to shift our cars and trucks off of oil for good,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address.

The president is proposing to take some of the oil and gas revenues from public lands and put it toward research on energy efficient engines, developing cheaper batteries and advancing bio-fuels and natural gas.

Last month Obama called on Congress to do more to combat climate change and he plans to introduce further efficiency standards for cars and renew a push on the development of cleaner energy.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 17^th, 2013.

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