Bush promises to reduce gasoline consumption by 20% within ten years

U.S. President George W. Bush pledged Tuesday to cut 20% of gasoline consumption in the United States within 10 years, and diversify the country’s energy supply.

“It is in our vital interest to diversify energy supplies in the United States through the development of technology,” Bush said during his annual State of the Union, delivered to the first time in six years before a Congress dominated by Democrats.

The United States must continue to change the way in which the country generates electricity, including the development of clean energy Techologies, the use of solar or wind or nuclear energy clean and secure , said Bush.

The new position Mr. Bush comes as the United States face increasing pressure to the inside and outside with regard to protecting the environment.

Since 2000, the Bush administration was notoriously skeptical about the impacts of global warming, which is a major threat to environmental protection.

The United States, responsible for one third of émissionsde greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, have not yet ratified the Kyoto Protocol entered into force in 2005, which provides a framework for global action to 2012 including the abatement of greenhouse gas emissions.

布什承诺减少20%,在10年内汽油消费量

美国总统布什布什承诺周二在10年内削减20汽油在美国消费%,并建立多元化的国家的能源供应。

“这是在我们的切身利益多元化,通过技术的发展,美国的能源供应,布什说:”在他的年度国家联盟,交付第一次在6年前,美国国会由民主党占主导地位。

美国必须继续改变在该国发电,包括清洁能源技术的探究的发展,太阳能或风能和核能利用的清洁和安全,布什说。

新立场布什总统之际,美国面临的压力越来越大的内外有关保护环境。

自2000年以来,布什政府怀疑是众所周知的全球变暖,这是一个重大威胁,保护环境的影响。

在美国,一个émissionsde全球温室气体排放量的三分之一,还没有批准京都议定书生效于2005年,提供了一个到2012年全球行动框架包括温室气体减排。24.01.07

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