Washington, February 19: President Barack Obama has said the US, being the world leader, cannot afford to lag behind in clean energy technologies amid the fast growth of India, China and Germany in the field and sought efforts to prevent any country from “out-competing” America in future.
“We know that whoever leads the clean energy revolution is going to lead the 21st century economy… And we can’t wait.
Because China is not waiting. India is not waiting. Germany is not waiting. We can’t afford to wait,” he said at a grassroots fundraiser for Senator Michael Bennet in Denver, Colorado.
“We can’t continue to spin our wheels in old education debates – the stale debates, they pit teachers against reformers – meanwhile kids are trailing their counterparts all around the world,” Obama said and urged people to vote for Bennet, who is running for re-election later this year.
–Agencies