Will Obama take the green road to recovery?

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Will Obama take the green road to recovery?

By Richard Huzzey | Sat 10th January 2009 - 12:05 am

An interesting article in The New Republic asks whether Obama will lead the USA into the economic equivalent of a world war to stem national and global depression. Strikingly, it advocates investment in green jobs as the front on which that war could be fought: the same front, of course, where Nick Clegg deployed the Liberal Democrats, with his ‘Green Road To Recovery’.

Here’s an extract from the article:

One area that is ripe for such investment–and that is not, from what I have seen, a declared priority of the Obama administration–is high-speed rail. Amtrak’s Acela trains–the closest thing we have to one–average less than 100 mph between Washington D.C. and Boston, whereas trains in Western Europe and Japan go more than twice as fast. Many of them also run on electricity. They would be the most energy-efficient and quickest means of getting between places like Boston and New York, or Los Angeles and San Francisco.

You can find another US version of the ‘Green Road To Recovery’ – the identically-named plan from the Center for American Progress – here.

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