I Reflect Back 35 Years Ago, And

We Have Had A Loss In Manufacturing Base And A Loss Of Some Of Our Productive Capability That Can Be Filled With The Green-collar Jobs Of Tomorrow. But It Will Only Happen If We Recognize The Scale And Scope Of Both The Challenge And The Opportunity.

The Fact Is That We Cannot Drill Our Way To Independence. We Cannot Drill Our Way To Freedom, And We Cannot Drill Our Way To Create Jobs In This Country.

With Millions Of Family Wage Manufacturing Jobs Lost Since 2001, We Need An Energy Bill That Takes Bold Action To Tap Into American Ingenuity In Order To Lead The World In New Clean Energy Technology, Rather Than Playing Catch-up To The Japanese, Danish, And Germans.

But Most Importantly, We Can All Be Donors. It Does Not Matter How Old You Are, Your Race, Where You Live; All Of Us Can Give The Gift Of Life.

We Allow It To Be Dumped Into This Community Asset, Which Is Our One And Only Atmosphere. So That Has To Change, And There's Really Only One Entity That Can Do That. So We Have Proposed A Cap-and-trade System To Stop That Unlimited Pollution, To Use The Forces Of The Market To Efficiently Allocate Scarce Permits To Allow Co2 Into The Atmosphere. That's Just One Of 500 Things We Need To Do, But It's Probably The Granddaddy Of Them All.