Today’s blog is about the a couple of key Points that I would like to emphasize about from the President’s initiatives and beliefs to push for a greener and safer environment as well as expanding new ways of providing and creating electricity. In the President agenda, the three things that grab my attention were cutting down pollution from power plants, increasing fuel economy standards, and Cutting Energy Waste in Homes, Businesses, and Factories.

For his first initiative, the president has a sense of urgency to cutting down pollution from power plants as fast as possible and layed down his plans of how he is going to achieve that. As we all know that pollution has taken several thousand lives each year and the president administration has being making huge steps to cut down on pollution and promote renewable clean energy. From the president’s first term until now, he had accomplished and currently working on different methods to boost this process. not only has he being promoting renewable clean energy, he also issue a permit for 10 gigawatts of renewables on public lands, he also expending and modernizing our national grid, which provide the electricity that we use. So with all of those factors in appliance, our future at least in having electricity at our disposal, as well as having them affordable and cheap will ease the burden on the population to afford it and also help the government to have enough energy to supply for an infinite period of time.

The second aspect that I also took notes that the president is being working on is increasing fuel economy standards. What it means is according to THE PRESIDENT’S CLIMATE ACTION PLAN agenda, “In 2011, the Obama Administration finalized the first-ever fuel economy standards for Model Year 2014-2018 for heavy-duty trucks, buses, and vans. These standards will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 270 million metric tons and save 530 million barrels of oil…….. The Obama Administration has already established the toughest fuel economy standards for passenger vehicles in U.S. history. These standards require an average performance equivalent of

54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, which will save the average driver more than $8,000 in fuel costs over the lifetime of the vehicle and eliminate six billion metric tons of carbon pollution – more than the United States emits in an entire year.” So not only the population will save money on transportation, but also his plan is to reduce a decent amount of carbon dioxide along with it.  It is a win-win situation for both the public and the government. Last time I checked the government as well using transportation and aren’t immune to pollution as well.

The third plan in the president agenda that I found really interesting is Cutting Energy Waste in Homes, Businesses, and Factories.  Under this category, the plan is to reduce bills energy for families and businesses, and also establishing new coal for energy efficiency standards, reducing barriers to investment in energy efficiency, and expanding the president’s better building challenge. So the plan on reducing bills energy for Americans families and businesses is that it will help the population saves hundreds of dollars  at least in the first year and more as the system fully takes in on heating and cooling, it will also help reduce gas emission. The second aspect is establishing new coals for energy efficiency standards, which is set up new minimum standards from refrigerators and dishwashers. It is actually in process and the goal is that by 2030, it will help save millions of dollars and electricity that could power about 85 million homes for 2 years.  Another aspect of this category is reducing barriers investment in energy efficiency, which means that the president would provide up to 250 million dollars to agricultural producers and rural small businesses for energy efficiency and renewable energy systems. Last but not least, the president also would plan on expanding the president’s better building challenge, which means that it placed to help Americans commercial and industrial buildings to be 20% energy efficient or more through 2020.

So the president’s plan in dealing with creating more renewable energy and saving the pollution money as well as reducing to pollution seems to be a great success on paper and hopefully would translate in reality, assuming everyone would have the same mindset and urgency that he does to make sure that our environment is safe and also making life easier financially for the public. His plans emphasized clearly what he wants to do and where he wants to go with the future of our energy and resources and I do believe with enough support and urgency, life might be a lot easier at least in the energy department looking in to the future.