Peres says Israel to focus on green energy

President Shimon Peres touted Israel as a future think thank for solutions to global warming, quipping that the sun was a more reliable resource than oil from Saudi Arabia.

“Israel in my judgment can and should become a laboratory, or a pilot plant, for most of the solutions which are necessary in our time,” he told a news conference with foreign journalists.
“More than a think tank, a pilot plant in Israel,” Peres said, adding that his country was seeking to produce environmentally sound cars in cooperation with foreign countries and to develop solar power.

“We have decided that we should try to be the first country to use cars based on batteries totally. We can do it because from a transportation point of view, our smallness is on our side.

“We are very close to concluding an agreement to build battery cars here. It will be done with a French company, an American company. We will do it together with the Jordanians. It will provide 50,000 jobs,” Peres said.

AFP