Progressive Solution

We need a concerted national initiative to rapidly move us to a new energy economy, creating jobs, strengthening our security and helping resolve the climate crisis.

The Apollo Project for Good Jobs and Energy Independence calls for a public investment of $30 billion a year for 10 years, creating 3 million jobs that pave the way to energy independence. We can raise the revenue by scrapping the giveaways to Big Oil and by making private companies pay for polluting the public sky with greenhouse gases.

Targeted public investment will unleash billions in private capital and mobilize the imaginations of the young to build the next generation of energy-efficient appliances, batteries and advanced automotive technologies.

We can create millions of new jobs in renewable and low-carbon energy production, green building construction and retrofits and the manufacture of new energy-efficient products—good-paying jobs that can’t be easily outsourced. Rather than shipping billions abroad for oil, we’ll profit from taking the lead in the growing markets for green technology. We’ll provide sustainable and affordable fuel options for consumers and businesses. We’ll fortify our economy and our security.

What will the new energy economy look like? Imagine:

• New factories and retooled plants producing wind turbines, solar panels and hydrogen fuel cells.
• A revived American auto industry leading the world in developing the next generation of clean energy cars such as Flex-Fuel vehicles and hybrids.
• Schools, offices and homes retrofitted to become more energy efficient with large savings for business and families.
• A 21st-century public infrastructure with mass transit and high-speed rail systems and a modernized electrical grid.

Endorsed by a broad coalition of environmental, labor and business organizations, the Apollo Project provides a solution that resonates with the American “can-do” spirit. We need to get America’s energy policy out of the hands of oil companies and into the hands of the public.