Obama's Achievements Regarding the Environment - Robert Redford's Endorsement (generation, president, American)
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Not surprisingly, Robert Redford has offered a strong endorsement of President Obama for a second-term ... citing eenormous achievements which have been made in the area of environmental issues these past 3.5 years:
Shortly after taking office, President Obama signed one of the largest expansions of wilderness protection in a generation, setting aside more than 2 million acres as protected wilderness, conserving more than 1,000 miles of rivers, authorizing a 26-million-acre conservation system of historically significant landscapes and adding thousands of miles of trails. He's helping restore treasured landscapes from coast to coast that support local economies and communities through tourism and outdoor recreation.
The President has set historic standards that by 2025 will double the distance our cars and trucks will be able to go on a tank of gas, reducing our reliance on foreign oil by 2.2 million barrels per day and saving each of us thousands of dollars at the pump.
He made the single largest investment in clean energy of any other president, helping to double the amount of electricity we generate from wind and solar, strengthening our global economic competitiveness and supporting nearly a quarter of a million American jobs.
And that's one of the biggest differences in an election brimming with them. While President Obama is moving us forward, Mitt Romney would take us back. He'd roll back every step of progress we've made -- not just in the last four years, but the last 40 years.
400 people lost their jobs at a wind generator plant in a city near me recently because the workforce couldn't be sustained with pending cuts in government tax credits. Yet we are to believe that our current President is pro-green energy and pro-job creation.
These jobs were created during the previous administration despite the fact that our former president was supposedly responsible for destroying the environment and scuttling the economy.
Bottom line, anybody who chooses to believe the BS these politicians and their ardent supporters spew without checking the facts for themselves is a fool.
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