OH: Obama touts 'green economy' for Midwest
5:31 PM
Visiting Dayton today, Dem Barack Obama pushed for enhanced national fuel efficiency standards and billions in federal money to investigate alternative fuels and said the Midwest could be the hub of a new economy.
"One of the benefits of being in the Midwest is that we should be at the center of the action," Obama said in a brief interview with the Dayton Daily News after his town hall meeting.
According to the a transcript of his prepared remarks, Obama said an energy transition was needed to safeguard the country's future:
"If we stay on our current course, the rapid growth of nations like China and India will rise about one-third by 2030. In that same year, Middle Eastern regimes will be sitting on 83 percent of our global oil reserves. Imagine that -- the very source of energy that fuels nearly all of our transportation, controlled almost entirely by some of the world's most unstable and undemocratic governments.Obama also released a new radio ad in Ohio saying a recent RNC ad is "makin' stuff up" regarding Obama's stance on taxes.
"This is not the future I want for America. We are not a country that places our fate in the hands of dictators and tyrants -- we are a nation that controls our own destiny. That's who we are. That's who we've always been."
