Our oil dependence is fully recognized as a national security problem.

Los Alamos National Lab has developed technology for geothermal, and there is going to be the creation of geothermal jobs in New Mexico.

We need to continue to work with the ski industry.

We support legislation that invests in using energy more efficiently and producing more clean energy at home and sets a cap on greenhouse gases to reduce emissions level guided by science to avoid dangerous global warming.

No fewer than 23 of 50 States have already agreed to regional cap-and-trade programs to reduce greenhouse gases.

I remember being on the side of a fire, I'm sure Senator Murkowski has had this experience.

I think we are doing everything we can to protect them, starting with the lowest income consumers.

We will either be buying the wind turbines and the car batteries from China, or we will be selling the wind turbines and the batteries to China.

When we look at our job growth in our State, overall job growth is up 1.9 percent, but jobs related to the new energy economy are up 11.9 percent.

We are planting wind turbines around New Mexico like trees.

Senator Murkowski was pointing out to me that in some cases the ski industry is actually working hard to save individual trees.

It's also important to emphasize that there's a great need to reduce the severity of wildfires proactively.