The President’s Weekly Address: “The First Step Towards a New Energy Economy”

pIn his weekly address, President Barack Obama praised the House of Representatives for passing the American Clean Energy and Security Act last night. This historic piece of legislation will lessen our dependence on foreign oil and spark a clean energy transformation in our economy that will create millions of new American jobs — jobs that are critical to building a new foundation for our economy./pobject width=”480″ height=”295″param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/3foa-tAKe1Qamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;”/paramparam name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”/paramparam name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”/paramembed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/3foa-tAKe1Qamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;” width=”480″ height=”295″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always”/embed/objectblockquotepquot;Now my call to every Senator, as well as to every American, is this: We cannot be afraid of the future. And we must not be prisoners of the past. Donrsquo;t believe the misinformation out there that suggests there is somehow a contradiction between investing in clean energy and economic growth. Itrsquo;s just not true.quot;/p/blockquote