Obama's green-jobs plan

President-elect Barack Obama may be looking at ways to paint the economic recovery plan green, according to this article:

"President-elect Barack Obama is considering a stimulus package that will include a heavy dose of spending on environmentally friendly projects aimed at creating “green-collar jobs” and saving energy. While the package will focus on short-term outlays for traditional infrastructure projects to jumpstart an economy now officially declared to be in recession, it will also include longer-term measures to safeguard the environment."

Some of the early proposals being considered include:

"$2 billion in spending on public transit to reduce fares and expand service, $5 billion in renewable-energy bonds for consumer-owned utilities, $2.5 billion to buy and scrap old polluting cars, and $900 million to help weatherize 1 million homes."

If taxpayers are going to bail out big business (and basically the entire economy) then we need to make sure that we rebuild it in the most consumer and environmentally friendly way possible.