On March 12, President Obama spoke with Business Roundtable's members - dozens of chief executives of America’s top companies – at their quarterly meeting in Washington. The President outlined his administration’s top priorities for the coming year, touching on the budget, regulatory reform, international tax fairness, workforce training and other issues.
President Obama highlighted a number of areas of common ground between CEOs and the administration, including energy and sustainability:
“We all know that the country that harnesses the power of renewable energy will lead the 21st century. And yet, it's China that's launched the largest effort in history to make their economy energy efficient. We invented solar technology, but we've fallen behind countries like Germany and Japan in producing it. New plug-in hybrids will roll off our assembly lines, but they're running on battery cells made in Korea.