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We’ve launched a new website for Spanish speakers: BarackObama.com en Español. You can sign up for campaign events, follow the latest news, and see our new DREAM Act video—all in Spanish.
Check out the site and be sure to share it with all the Spanish speakers you know.
Acabamos de lanzar una nueva página para hispanohablantes: BarackObama.com en Español. Puedes inscribirte para participar en eventos de la campaña, enterarte de las últimas noticias, y ver nuestro nuevo video sobre la Ley DREAM—todo en español.
Visita la página y asegúrate de compartirla con todos los hispanohablantes que conoces.
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Since taking office, President Obama has called for an “all-of-the-above” approach to reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil, including an increase in safe and responsible oil production here at home.
Today, America’s oil production is at its highest level in eight years:
Along with President Obama’s initiatives to reduce our consumption of fossil fuels, this increase in domestic production is moving us towards energy independence and saving American consumers at the pump.
640,000: Increase in the average number of barrels of crude oil produced per day since 2008
4 X: Factor by which the number of oil rigs operating in the United States has gone up under President Obama's administration
1.5 million: Decrease in the average number of barrels of crude oil imported per day since 2008
16: Number of years since the United States’ dependence on foreign oil was as low as it was last year
54.5 mpg: Performance equivalent that will be required for model year 2017-2025 cars and light trucks—nearly doubling the standards that were in place when President Obama took office
More than $8,000: Savings at the pump per vehicle by 2025 thanks to steps the Obama administration has taken to increase efficiency
More than $1.7 trillion: Total amount consumers will have saved at the pump by 2025 thanks to President Obama’s fuel efficiency program
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In just about 24 hours, Mitt Romney is headed to a hotel ballroom to give a speech sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, a front group founded and funded by the Koch brothers.
Those are the same Koch brothers whose business model is to make millions by jacking up prices at the pump, and who bankrolled Tea Party extremism, and committed $200 million to try to destroy President Obama before Election Day.
So in the hours before Romney courts two men obsessed with making Barack Obama a one-term president, let's see how many of us can chip in to the Two-Term Fund.
Here's what Mitt Romney told his supporters just after his victory in the Florida GOP primary:
"We must not forget what this election is really about: defeating Barack Obama."
Pitch in $3 or more over the next 24 hours to show that, while that message may fire up two oil-industry billionaires, it's also one that plenty of us are tired of hearing.
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In an editorial, The New York Times defends the Mercury and Air Toxics rule, approved by the Obama administration in December, against attempts in Congress to overturn it:
After 20 years of delay and litigation by polluters, the Obama administration approved in December one of the most important rules in the history of the Clean Air Act. It will require power plants to reduce emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants by more than 90 percent in the next five years and is expected to prevent as many as 11,000 premature deaths annually from asthma, other respiratory diseases and heart attacks.
In addition to reducing emissions of global warming gases and ground-level pollutants, the upgrades are expected to create as many as 45,000 temporary construction jobs over the next five years and possibly 8,000 permanent jobs.
Read the rest of the editorial, and learn more about the rule at EPA.gov/mats.
We love the sound of phone banks here at our #IA2012 HQ in Des Moines!
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It’s been a busy week in the field, from registering voters during a Mardi Gras parade in Louisiana to Women for Obama house parties across the country. Check out the photos and then find out how to get involved where you are.
@OFA_OH extremely busy @ Dayton office 2nite. Over 30 new volunteers making calls for the 1st time #Obama2012 pic.twitter.com/sf3bSKl3