With Barack Obama the official president-elect of the United States, I thought it would be appropriate to look at how his policies and ideas can have a positive impact on the environment. For the next week or so, I’ll be highlighting a few of his positions on energy and the environment (all pulled from his website, so it’s totally official). So, without further ado, heres what Obama’s New Energy Plan aims to do:

• Provide short-term relief to American families facing pain at the pump
• Help create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future.
• Within 10 years save more oil than we currently import from the Middle East and Venezuela combined.
• Put 1 million Plug-In Hybrid cars — cars that can get up to 150 miles per gallon — on the road by 2015, cars that we will work to make sure are built here in America.
• Ensure 10 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025.
• Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050.
• Enact a Windfall Profits Tax to Provide a $1,000 Emergency Energy Rebate to American Families.
• Crack Down on Excessive Energy Speculation.
• Swap Oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to Cut Prices.

It’s important to know this stuff now, so we can track his progress. I know that I’d drive a plug-in hybrid car, but will 999,999 other people?