# Obama to Energy Entrepreneurs: "Your Country Needs You"

*Published:* 2009-03-24
*Author:* Keith Gaby

From an address at the White House yesterday:

> We can remain the world’s leading importer of foreign oil, or become the world’s leading exporter of renewable energy. We can allow climate change to wreak unnatural havoc, or we can create jobs preventing its worst effects.

It’s definitely worth reading [the news summary and full remarks](http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/03/23/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4885397.shtml).