The following goals of Obama's Greener Economic Plan need to be achieved:

• help create five million new jobs by strategically investing US$150 billion in renewables over the next ten years to catalyse private efforts to build a greener energy future;
• save more oil than the USA currently imports from the Middle East and Venezuela combined within ten years;
• help build in America one million plug-in hybrid cars that can reach 150 miles per gallon by 2015;
• ensure renewable energy sources make up 10% of US electricity by 2012, and 25% by 2025; and
• carry out an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050.