Barack Obama pitches $2bn clean energy research fund

16 March 2013
US President Barack Obama has called for pumping $2bn (£1.3bn) from gas and oil royalties over a decade into clean energy research.

In the first energy speech of his second term, Mr Obama made the case for an energy security trust while visiting a Chicago research laboratory.

The president first proposed the idea in his State of the Union address.

The White House says the trust would not increase the US deficit because oil and gas revenues are projected to rise.

But creation of a trust, at $200m a year for 10 years, would still require congressional approval, at a time of sharp divides over energy issues.

"The only way to break this cycle of spiking gas prices, the only way to break that cycle for good, is to shift our cars entirely, our cars and trucks, off oil," the president said after his tour of the University of Chicago's non-profit Argonne National Laboratory.

Argonne is known for its groundbreaking research into advanced batteries used in electric cars.

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