Barbara Boxer: “It created jobs. We have been a leader in jobs. We are very prosperous. We believe our landmark legislation on global…”

“It created jobs. We have been a leader in jobs. We are very prosperous. We believe our landmark legislation on global warming, the studies show, will create thousands and tens of thousands of green-collar jobs. I think the point I would like to emphasize, and I know my friend from Missouri will be amazed at this, if every other State were just to emulate that, had emulated that, and we all did this as a national goal, not just one State's goal, we would have saved an amount of energy equivalent to all of the oil we import from the Middle East each year. That is the amount of savings from the simple things that we can do, some of the things that my friend is trying so hard to get done in the Energy bill. The fact is, when I look at the whole issue of global warming as a good news/bad news story, the bad news is we really have not tackled it here. The good news is there is so much we can do, so easily, with such benefits. Certainly, energy efficiency is one.”