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THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. Everybody, please

have a seat, have a seat.

Hello, Fairless Hills! Hello, Gamesa! It is good to be here. I

was here three years ago. I was then a candidate -- how

many folks were here at the time? Anybody

remember? (Applause.) We had a good visit. I signed a

blade, I think, while I was here.

I didn’t have as much gray

hair back then. (Laughter.) You guys still look great.

I’m a

little worn down.

It is great to be back, and I love visiting places where people

are actually making stuff, because that’s what America is

about. Everybody here, you are helping 1 to build towers

that are going to stand 400 feet in the air and generate

enough electricity to power 600 homes. And the blades

alone are 140 feet long, so these aren’t your father’s

windmill s

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. These are wind turbines. You guys are

not messing around. This is the future of American energy.

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So I wanted to come back partly because over the last two

years since

I’ve been President, just as I promised when I

was here as a candidate, I have been promoting and boosting

clean energy.

I think it’s absolutely critical for our

future.

And it’s also nice to be next to cool products.

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

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by workers like you. And I know that this is -- this whole

issue of energy is on the minds of a lot of people right now,

partly because you’re paying more at the pump.

Anybody

notice that? You noticed that a little bit.

The fact is, for a lot of folks, money was already tight before

gas prices started climbing, especially for some families

where the husband or the wife had been out of work or

you’ve had to get by with fewer customers or hours on the

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job. Having high gas prices is just one more added burden.

But I want everybody to remember, every time gases go up,

we see the same pattern. Washington gets all worked up,

just like clockwork. Republicans and Democrats 2 both start

making a lot of speeches. Usually the Democrats blame the

Republicans; the Republicans blame the

Democrats. Everybody is going in front of the cameras and

they’ve got som

e new three-point plan to promise two-

dollar-a-gallon gas. And then nothing happens. And then

gas prices go down, and then suddenly it’s not in the news

anymore and everybody forgets about it until the next time

gas prices go back up again.

That’s

what was happening when I was running three years

ago.

You remember “Drill, baby, drill”?

That was because

the economy was overheated, gas prices were skyrocketing,

and everybody made a lot of speeches but not much

happened.

And I said then that we can’

t afford to continue

this kind of being in shock when gas prices go up and then

suddenly being in a trance when things go back down

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again.

We’ve got to have a sustained energy policy that is

consistent, that recognizes that there’s no magic formula to

dri

ving gas prices down; it’s a steady improvement in terms

of how we use energy and where we get energy from --

that’s what’s going to make a difference.

That’s how

we’re going to secure our energy future.

So last week I laid out a vision of how we could do this.

It’s

a plan that says we’re not going to play the usual

Washington politics that have prevented progress on energy

for decades.

Instead, what we’re going to do is we’re

going to take every good idea out there.

Whether you’re

Republican or Democrat 3 , whatever the idea. From

environmentalists. From oil men like T. Boone Pickens. I

want to have a comprehensive energy strategy that can help

us move forward.

And that means we’ve got to pursue

every breakthrough, every renewable resource, every

technology, every approach to change the way we produce

and use energy.

And through this plan, what we want to do is promote all

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kinds of homegrown energy.

That’s what’s going to help

us secure our energy future.

That’s what’s going to help

us win the future.

Now, first of all, what I want to do is, in a decade, I want us to

have cut by one-third the amount of oil that we imported

when I was elected to this office. I want to cut our energy

imports by a third.

Now, understand why th

at’s so important, because when

you see what happens in the Middle East, and suddenly the

world oil markets get spooked, even if the supply is there,

your gas prices are going to go up. The less we import, the

more control we have over what happens at the pump.

Second, through sources like wind energy, produced in part

by your turbi nes

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, I want us to double the amount

of electricity that we draw from clean sources. I want us to

double it. And that means by 2035, 80 percent of our

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electricity will come from renewables like wind and solar, as

well as efficient natural gas, clean coal, nuclear power. We

can do that.

And by the way, that would make a huge difference here at

Gamesa.

This is an approach that says we’re not going to

pick one energy source over another. What we do is we set a

target, an achievable goal, and then we give industry the

flexibility 4 to achieve it.

We say to the utilities, you’ve got

to get this much energy from renewable sources, and then

wind is competing with solar is competing with natural

gas.

And there’s a healthy competition out there, and

everybody starts getting better at what they do because

you’re producing more and you know you’ve got a reliable

customer for it.

So we’re cutting oil imports by

a third.

We’re going to get

80 percent of our electricity from clean sources. And if we

follow through on this, if we actually tackle this challenge,

here’s what will happen.

Our economy will be less

vulnerable to wild swings in oil prices. Our nation will no

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