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The Green Room

Buy America:  Transportation Manufacturing and Domestic Content Requirements

May 2009

As the United States invests in building a 21st Century transportation system, expansion of public transit, “clean” freight movement, and high-speed rail will generate new demand for cleaner, more efficient transportation vehicles and systems.

Scale up energy efficiency, develop renewable sources of energy, construct a modern smart grid, repair existing transportation infrastructure, and build public transit and high-speed rail.
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Make it In America
Expand domestic manufacturing to produce the systems and components of the clean energy economy, and to rebuild America’s middle class.
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Technological Leadership
Double national investment in clean energy research, development, and commercialization.
Green-Collar Jobs
Scale up investment in training opportunities at every level to provide good jobs along career pathways that meet the demand of the clean energy sector.
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Generate and strategically reinvest the resources necessary to build the new clean energy economy.
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