Jonathan endorses the entire concept of the Apollo Alliance: a massive national effort to invest in a sensible energy plan, which would create good, high-paying jobs. Our campaign thinks we need an energy plan that is built around making our communities safer, our environment cleaner and provides good jobs for our families.
You can read the whole vision of the plan for the entire nation. But, consider this:
For a ten-year national investment of a bit more than $313 billion, we would generate $1.43 trillion in economic activity, $953.87 billion in personal income and over 3.3 million new good-paying jobs.
That’s half of what the Iraq war is likely to cost and two-thirds of what the war has cost already.
For New York State, embracing the Apollo Alliance would mean, over ten years:
- An additional $15.1 billion of economic activity
- $9.6 billion of increased personal income
- 228,100 new jobs including (31,320 new manufacturing jobs and 25,635 new construction jobs)
Here is the Apollo Alliance’s ten-point plan:
- Promote Advanced Technology & Hybrid Cars:
Begin today to provide incentives for converting domestic assembly lines to manufacture highly efficient cars, transitioning the fleet to American made advanced technology
vehicles, increasing consumer choice and strengthening the US auto industry.
- Invest In More Efficient Factories: Make innovative use of the tax code and economic development systems to promote more efficient and profitable manufacturing while saving energy through environmental retrofits, improved boiler operations, and industrial cogeneration of electricity, retaining jobs by investing in plants and workers.
- Encourage High Performance Building: Increase investment in construction of “green buildings†and energy efficient homes and offices through innovative financing
and incentives, improved building operations, and updated codes and standards, helping working families, businesses, and government realize substantial cost savings.
- Increase Use of Energy Efficient Appliances: Drive a new generation of highly efficient manufactured goods into widespread use, without driving jobs overseas, by linking higher energy standards to consumer and manufacturing incentives that increase demand for new durable goods and increase investment in US factories.
- Modernize Electrical Infrastructure: Deploy the best available technology like scrubbers to existing plants, protecting jobs and the environment; research new technology to capture and sequester carbon and improve transmission for distributed renewable generation.
- Expand Renewable Energy Development: Diversify energy sources by promoting existing technologies in solar, biomass and wind while setting ambitious but achievable goals for increasing renewable generation, and promoting state and local policy innovations that link clean energy and jobs.
- Improve Transportation Options: Increase mobility, job access, and transportation choice by investing in effective multimodal networks including bicycle, local bus and rail transit, regional high-speed rail and magnetic levitation rail projects.
- Reinvest In Smart Urban Growth: Revitalize urban centers to promote strong cities and good jobs, by rebuilding and upgrading local infrastructure including road maintenance, bridge repair, and water andwaste water systems, and by expanding redevelopment of idled urban “brownfield†lands, and by improving metropolitan planning and governance.
- Plan For A Hydrogen Future: Invest in long term research & development of hydrogen fuel cell technology, and deploy the infrastructure to support hydrogen powered
cars and distributed electricity generation using stationary fuel cells, to create jobs in the industries of the future.
- Strengthen Regulatory Protections: Encourage balanced growth and investment through regulation that ensures energy diversity and system reliability, that protects workers and the environment, that rewards consumers, and that establishes a fair framework for emerging technologies.
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