John Kerry: “in 2006, the renewable sector of energy in America generated 8.5 million new jobs, nearly $970 billion in revenue, over…”

“in 2006, the renewable sector of energy in America generated 8.5 million new jobs, nearly $970 billion in revenue, over $100 billion in industry profits, and more than $150 billion in increased tax revenues at all levels of government. One study found that with a serious commitment to an aggressive clean energy strategy, we could create 40 million jobs and $4.5 trillion in revenue by the year 2030, which is not even the end of the period this bill seeks to address in terms of reductions. We can create millions of jobs at every single level of our economy. We can create jobs for scientists, jobs for professors, jobs for people in the software and computerware business, jobs that come all the way down the food chain in terms of every aspect of American life and particularly in the infrastructure and construction industries where we would be building the new plants and new facilities and the new delivery systems for all of this technology. This is the future. This is the future we can see because we have been there before. The United States has transitioned in fuels before. We used to do everything by burning wood, and then after we burned all the wood around our cities and learned we could not do it anymore, we discovered oil. We used to use whale oil from Nantucket, MA, and lit most of the streets in New England. Then we moved to a mix of items, including hydro, coal, even nuclear ultimately. We are in that next transition now.”