President Obama, who called for 1 million electric vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015, sits in the driver's seat of the Opel Ampera electric vehicle on display at the NATO Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on Nov. 20.
President Obama called Tuesday for an end to federal subsidies for oil companies, proposing instead to use the money to promote biofuels and electric vehicles."With more research and incentives, we can break our dependence on oil with biofuels, and become the first country to have 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015," Obama said in his State of the Union Address to Congress. He set a goal of having 80% of U.S. electricity come from clean energy sources -- which he described as solar, wind, clean coal, natural gas, nuclear power -- by 2035.
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