I contend that, because of environmental policies here where we encouraged utilities to burn natural gas instead of coal and other sources, that we drove up the demand for natural gas.

If we give the incentives, we make sure the jobs are here and the commercialization is here.

Many people now engaged in this debate downplay the impacts that climate change will have on our economy.

Does green overcome red to the other industries because they are less competitive because of increased costs?

I would hope that beyond the workshops we have more than one mark up as we did last time.

I also observed that many of the companies in U.S. cap are going to make money out of cap-and-trade.

The point I am making is the cost of energy does impact on your businesses and the fact is--are all of you concerned that if we had something that would drive up your electric costs or make it more expensive to buy gasoline?

The last time we considered this kind of legislation, the impact on our State would have been a 50 percent cost in electricity, 60 percent in gas and 41 percent in gasoline.

Climate change is a complex issue that requires examination from a variety of perspectives.

I just want to interject something. One of the things that I recognize, and we all recognize, is that we, if we are going to talk about a subsidy, is in the grid.

I am a great supporter of green jobs.

It is going to be a long time before the new jobs in Ohio, the green jobs, are going to compensate for the jobs that we lost because of the high costs of natural gas.