Mazie Hirono actually said...

Hawaii created the Green Energy Market Securitization Program, or GEMS, to help more people invest in renewable energy.

I echo those sentiments about singing to the choir.

This was embodied in the 2008 Memorandum of Agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy and Hawaii and the subsequent passage in 2009 of...

So not paying for importing oil and becoming more energy self-sufficient will, of course, mean more money.