The Obama administration announced Tuesday that the White House will have solar panels to generate electricity and a solar water heater atop the living quarters by spring 2011.
"President Obama has said the federal government has to lead by example in creating opportunity and jobs in clean energy," said Nancy Sutley, head of the White House Council on Environmental Quality. The Department of Energy will begin a competitive bid process to select a company to do the work.
Obama, who has promoted renewable energy, has come under pressure from environmentalists and the solar industry to install photovolotaic roof panels at the White House. President Jimmy Carter did so in 1979, but the panels were removed during the Reagan administration.
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Two questions: 1) Why did it take him 2 years? 2) What was up Bill Clinton's ass? He should have gone solar in 1993.
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