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The 44th president must make a clear, unwavering commitment to clean
energy and back it up with concrete policies that move America toward a new energy future. The next president should set the following goals to achieve a clean energy
future for America:

1. Reduce our dependence on oil by saving at least one-third of the oil we use today by 2025 through energy efficiency improvements and a switch to cleaner fuels.
2. Harness clean, renewable, homegrown energy sources like wind, solar and farm-based bio-fuels for at least a quarter of all energy needs by 2025.
3. Save energy with high performance homes, buildings and appliances so that by 2025 we use at least 10 percent less energy than we do today.
4. Invest in new energy technologies and resources by committing $30 billion over the next 10 years to the development of clean energy solutions and shifting funds away from dirty energy resources.

America’s next president can provide America with much needed leadership by focusing on the following ten policies:

1) Adopt the most stringent appliance efficiency standards.
2) Adopt the most stringent building efficiency standards.
3) Save oil through stronger fuel economy standards for vehicles and by promoting clean, alternative fuels.
4) Set a national renewable electricity standard that requires 25 percent of the nation’s electricity to come from
renewable sources by 2025.
5) Commit $30 billion in renewable energy funds over the next ten years.
6) Make research, development and deployment of solar energy a centerpiece of the nation’s energy plan.
7) Reform utility policies to reward efficiency and renewable energy.
8) Place a moratorium on all new coal-fired power plants.
9) Reject nuclear power including the re-licensing of aging nuclear power
plants.
10) Control global warming pollution through a national carbon cap.