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Jackie Speier: Of course we can do it. It's all about whether we have the will. We can even allow Big Oil to continue to have some…

On the recordJune 16, 2010
Of course we can do it. It's all about whether we have the will. We can even allow Big Oil to continue to have some little subsidies, or equalize the subsidies that we are providing there and take that other money, take $6 billion, retrofit 3.3 million homes in this country, create hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of jobs, and we would be better off.
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Jackie Speier
Democratic · California
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Jun 16, 2010

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The speaker discusses the potential for job creation and home retrofitting through the reallocation of subsidies.

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