Obama, Democratic wins bolster energy agenda as top leadership sparring begins

摘要

With his historic win in the US presidential election, Barack Obama is starting work on a sweeping new energy and environmental agenda that could significantly impact oil and gas companies, electric utilities, automakers and other sectors of the US economy.rnObama rose to prominence quickly after ascending from the Illinois Legislature to the US Senate and into a national race to replace President Bush, and on Tuesday he became the first African-American to reach the presidency. The nation's economic strife, viewed by many through the prisms of a global credit crisis and record oil prices, swept the Democrat into office after he pledged "to act boldly to transform our entire economy -from our cars and our fuels to our factories and our buildings."