Washington – U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday visited a wind-turbine plant near Philadelphia to push his proposals for energy security and he warned that "it won't be easy" to achieve independence from foreign oil imports.
"I think that what you do here is a glimpse of the future, and it's a future where America is less dependent on foreign oil, more reliant on clean energy produced by workers like you," Obama told employees of the Spanish firm Gamesa.
Obama has proposed a series of initiatives to improve energy security, including reducing by a third the consumption of foreign oil by 2020 and ensuring that by 2035 80 percent of the country's electricity comes from clean sources.
"Gas prices, they're going to still fluctuate until we can start making these broader changes," the president said. "And that's going to take a couple of years to have serious effect."
"And I'm not going to guarantee standing here that suddenly every single challenge we have is going to go away overnight. And if somebody promises you that, they're not telling the truth," Obama said.
The president also insisted on the need to invest in education, one of his political priorities for this congress, and he cited Gamesa as an example of what can be achieved.
"If we've got the best scientists, if we've got the best engineers, if we've got the best mathematicians, if we've got workers who know how to - as they do here at Gamesa - to use high-tech equipment, that's what's going to be our advantage," Obama said.
It was not the first time that Obama had visited the Gamesa plant in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, that being when he organized a campaign event at the site during his presidential run in 2008 to defend his promotion of clean energy.
Gamesa, which has more than 15 years of experience in the sector, has 30 production centers in Europe, the United States, China and India and employs 7,200 people worldwide.
The firm's plant in Fairless Hills employs about 300 people on the site of a former U.S. Steel facility.
Source: http://latino.foxnews.com
"I think that what you do here is a glimpse of the future, and it's a future where America is less dependent on foreign oil, more reliant on clean energy produced by workers like you," Obama told employees of the Spanish firm Gamesa.
Obama has proposed a series of initiatives to improve energy security, including reducing by a third the consumption of foreign oil by 2020 and ensuring that by 2035 80 percent of the country's electricity comes from clean sources.
"Gas prices, they're going to still fluctuate until we can start making these broader changes," the president said. "And that's going to take a couple of years to have serious effect."
"And I'm not going to guarantee standing here that suddenly every single challenge we have is going to go away overnight. And if somebody promises you that, they're not telling the truth," Obama said.
The president also insisted on the need to invest in education, one of his political priorities for this congress, and he cited Gamesa as an example of what can be achieved.
"If we've got the best scientists, if we've got the best engineers, if we've got the best mathematicians, if we've got workers who know how to - as they do here at Gamesa - to use high-tech equipment, that's what's going to be our advantage," Obama said.
It was not the first time that Obama had visited the Gamesa plant in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, that being when he organized a campaign event at the site during his presidential run in 2008 to defend his promotion of clean energy.
Gamesa, which has more than 15 years of experience in the sector, has 30 production centers in Europe, the United States, China and India and employs 7,200 people worldwide.
The firm's plant in Fairless Hills employs about 300 people on the site of a former U.S. Steel facility.
Source: http://latino.foxnews.com
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