Monday, March 23, 2009

Obama Calls on Inventors



President Barack Obama’s latest efforts to turn the economy around are focusing on inventors. Like Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin’s inventions changed America forever, Obama hopes that Americans can step forward and do the same thing. Obama said that if necessity is the mother of invention, "at this moment of necessity we need you. We need inventiveness."

The plan is that products such as electric cars and solar-tapping windows will help the United States end its foreign dependence on oil and also create jobs. Obama outlined an energy program as part of the $787 billion stimulus package that calls for $39 billion for the Department of Energy and $20 billion in tax incentives for clean energy.

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