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The Obama Energy Speech, Annotated

Posted on August 05, 2008

Former Vice President Al Gore used a recent speech to call for weaning the United States from coal by 2018. On Monday, Senator Barack Obama proposed weaning the country from Middle Eastern and Venezuelan oil in roughly the same time span. Feeling rising pressure in the campaign over high gas prices (and the looming specter [...]...

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al gore , barack obama , president