A Greener American

According to the Christian Science Monitor's website President Obama has made a greener America and energy an important topic in many of his speeches and proposed policies. The article provides passages from several different speeches which address that issue of energy. What I found as a common thread in all of these speeches is the passive mention of providing jobs to Americans. For example,
"Well, I do not accept a future where the jobs and industries of tomorrow take root beyond our borders – and I know you don’t either."
and
"And we will put Americans to work making our homes and buildings more efficient so that we can save billions of dollars on our energy bills."
And in response to the recent Kansas tornado and their effect on their economy
"as a global example of how clean energy can power an entire community – how it can bring jobs and businesses to a place where piles of bricks and rubble once lay.

Even if the passages did not intentionally tie together to two issues of providing more jobs for our economy and exploring alternative or green solutions to our current energy crisis, I feel that this connection helps to calm American minds. We love proficiency and if one policy step, being a boost in the research and practice of alternative energy, can help begin to solve two issue at once, the better! It is probably much easier to get this policy across the public with the promise of new jobs and a stimulated economy. I'm not saying that going green will solve the nation's economic crisis, but it would help boost the number of jobs open to unemployed Americans. Also, with new research and hopefully with a quicker solution, energy costs will go down and new, revived American industry will be boosted.

(I have no idea what happened to the text!?!)