Video: My chat with President Obama: Don’t be stubborn about it -- or we will be! | 1Sky
Me: It’s got to be renewable energy. No more clean coal. [Inaudible: It’s a unicorn. It doesn’t exist.]2008: Al Gore's Speech On Renewable Energy : NPR
Obama: No, no, no… I disagree with you. I disagree with you. I'm going to defend… We are not going to get all our energy from wind and solar in the next 20 years…
Me: Can't the market do it? Can't the market make the investment? [Inaudible: It’s hundreds of billions (of dollars we’d be investing in "clean coal" in the House version of the bill)]
Obama: They can’t do it. The technology’s not there. I’ve got a nuclear physicist as my Department of Energy who cares more about climate change than anything and he will tell you you can’t get it done just through that – so you’ve got to have a transition period and do all this other stuff. Don’t be stubborn about it!
Me: It’s about getting the votes [inaudible: in Congress isn’t it?]
Obama: This is not a votes matter, This is a technological matter. It really is. I mean, I've looked at it.
Me: We’re running a national campaign on it and people are really upset about this–
Obama: I know, look. I know everybody’s… you know, if I could do it all with wind and solar I would! We can't. Not yet. But we can ramp it up. That's what we're working on.
Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.
This goal is achievable, affordable and transformative.
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