House Proceeding 05-12-09 on May 12th, 2009 :: 1:13:05 to 1:15:20
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Speech By: Jay Inslee

1:12:46 to 1:13:07( Edit History Discussion )

Jay Inslee: 5% of efficiency gains that will help boost these companies that are now hiring so many people around the country. another company in my area, president obama mentioned them when we were at the white house last week, they have similarly sold efficiency services. so, everywhere you look you can

1:13:08 to 1:13:28( Edit History Discussion )

Jay Inslee: find opportunities for this job creation. but what these companies need is policies that will level the playingfield. because right now our policies just, you know, favor some of the older industries. and now we need some policies that will really level the playing field and allow this transition to take place.

1:13:29 to 1:13:49( Edit History Discussion )

Jay Inslee: now, in this bill we're going to be doing it, there's some costs associated, of course. as there always is. we don't usually expect something for nothing. but in our bill it's the polluters and the polluters' industries that will pay. they will be the ones that will be required to purchase and pay for permits associated with this pollution.

1:13:50 to 1:14:10( Edit History Discussion )

Jay Inslee: and generally i think it's fairly well understood that in a society that favors responsibility, it ought to be the polluters who are responsible of the cost and not citizens. and in fact there will be some assistance to citizens with their utility bills associated with this project. so, the good news that i'm

1:14:11 to 1:14:31( Edit History Discussion )

Jay Inslee: hearing from across the country is americans believe that we will create jobs if we act on clean energy, number one. and number two, i'm seeing with my own eyes my constituents getting hired in these new emerging industries. you know, i went to the three-teared company the other

1:14:32 to 1:14:53( Edit History Discussion )

Jay Inslee: day, they essentially manage electricity so -- in large corporations. manage server farms and the like. and they're hiring people. the alter rock company is doing engineered geothermal.

1:14:54 to 1:15:15( Edit History Discussion )

Jay Inslee: you poke a hole down, pump water wn, you make steam and generate electricity. i went to another company, a marine architecture firm in seattle. you don't normally associate architectural firms with job creation and clean energy but they're potentially working on platforms to build floating flat forms for offshore wind turbans and they're in the preliminary

1:15:16 to 1:15:36( Edit History Discussion )

Jay Inslee: work of looking at particular designs to do that. we have enormous capacity for wind off of our shore lines. the basic american belief in the country is being matched by real businesses in realtime, hiring real people witreal paychecks.