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12) "Just as a similar synthetic rubber corporation helped us win World War II, so will we mobilize American determination and ability to win the energy war."

13) "I'll also extend the Production Tax Credit for five years to encourage the production of renewable energy like wind power, solar power, and geothermal energy."

14) "I am asking for the most massive peacetime commitment of funds and resources in our nation's history to develop America's own alternative sources of fuel -- from coal, from oil shale, from plant products for gasohol, from unconventional gas, from the sun."

15) "Think about when the scientists and engineers told John F. Kennedy that they had no idea how to put a man on the moon, he told them they would find a way."

16) "We ourselves are the same Americans who just ten years ago put a man on the Moon."

17) "We will set a goal of making our new buildings 50 percent more efficient over the next four years."

18) "I'm asking Congress to mandate, to require as a matter of law, that our nation's utility companies cut their massive use of oil by 50 percent within the next decade and switch to other fuels, especially coal, our most abundant energy source."

19) "And we'll invest in the technology that will allow us to use more coal, America's most abundant energy source...

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Taxes, Foreign Policy, Barack Obama, Mainstream Media, Islam, Law, Energy, Oil