House Proceeding 05-12-09 on May 12th, 2009 :: 1:16:45 to 1:24:00
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Speech By: Earl Blumenauer

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Earl Blumenauer: we just received approval from the obama administration to move forward with a street car extension that's going to not only create nearly 1,300 jobs for construction and not only will we be manufacturing the first street car built in

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Earl Blumenauer: america in 58 years, but i know in your area, you already have the south union -- south lake union trolley, that is in operation. you're looking to expand that. every one of these projects, not only represents an economic

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Earl Blumenauer: opportunity, but it dramatically changes the carbon footprint. servicing 240 units at -- along a trolley line instead of a suburban subdivision is a million pounds of carbon a year that is saved.

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Earl Blumenauer: a trip not taken. being able to extend things like modern street cars to communities large and small across america, like they were 100 years ago, provides an opportunity for thousands of construction jobs, changing the

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Earl Blumenauer: carbon footprint, changing the technological and manufacturing advances in ways that are going to affect millions of lives. it is so important for us to be thinking about that big picture because we are exporting overseas over a billion -- $1

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Earl Blumenauer: billion a day for oil. and we're watching that probably starting up again last year -- up again. last year it was $700 billion that was lost. this is money that is taken out of our economy, in my community. the difference between just the

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Earl Blumenauer: fact that we drive 20% less keeps $800 million a year circulating in that local

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Jay Inslee: economy that isn't sent to venezuela or to saudi arabia or -- mr. i yield? mr. blumenauer: i'd be happy to. mr. inslee: i think that's a very important point. that the portfolio of these new renewable energy sources that are going to provide the electricity for both our

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Speech By: Jay Inslee

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Jay Inslee: toasters and for these train systems that mr. blumenauer talked about, when you generate this electricity using renewable sources, it's by necessity a domestic product. if you are using renewable energy to generate your electricity, you know you're using an all-american energy source.

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Jay Inslee: because that means the wind is right in eastern washington or eastern oregon, by the way, washington just had the biggest wind farm in america, became the -- became the largest producer of wind power in the world last year. there are as many people working in the wind power industry today as the coal mining industry. we're rapidly increasing the number of jobs. but we're using domestic energy when we use wind power.

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Jay Inslee: when -- i went to a company in washington a couple of months ago, the company is develop -- has developed a solar energy system using a stirling engine and that's a system where you have these con cave, you know, -- concave, you know, these concave dishes, look like large satellite dishes, and they

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Jay Inslee: concentrate the sun's energy on a little engine about the size of a couple of pop cans and that turns that pressure difference into energy. when you use the system, you are getting a job creation in the northwest, in washington state,

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Jay Inslee: and are you using a domestic

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Earl Blumenauer: supply of energy, name sunshine that's falling on us right now. mr. blumenauer: i think that is a very important point to make, that this is 100% american energy. but also in rms of what happens with the net economic impact, there are some who claim that, well, we should deal with

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Speech By: Earl Blumenauer

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Earl Blumenauer: the fossil fuels, the oil and coal, because they create jobs. well, they do create jobs, but i think the evidence is clear that the investment in the alternative energies of the future that you're talking about, in wind and solar, the clean energy economy creates

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Earl Blumenauer: about four times the jobs for each $1 million invested as in the traditional fossil fuels. and when y consider that we are also avoiding some of the most negative consequences of burning dirty coal on the health

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Earl Blumenauer: of individuals and of the lar ecosystem, iis a multiple benefit -- it is of multiple benefit to the economy and the environment. you know, we heard on the floor, this was incredible to me, last week i heard my republican friends being upset that the speaker, with the initiative to

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Earl Blumenauer: green the capitol, had replaced dirty coal with natural gas which has halfhe carbon emissions, doesn't have the other problems in terms of sulfur dioxide, in terms of carbon monoxide.

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Earl Blumenauer: the capitol heating plant was the number one source of pollution in our nation's

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Jay Inslee: capital, threatening the lives and health of people who work around the capitol, chilen in our schools -- capital, children in our schools and the opponents of responsible action for a clean energy economy were saying that that was somehow an attack on coal. . mr. inslee: i think it's important you brought up the

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Speech By: Jay Inslee

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Jay Inslee: issue of coal. i think it's very important to note that when this bill comes out of our committee and comes to the floor of the house, it is not going to ignore the potential of coal to remain part of our energy future. we have huge amounts of coal reserves in this country that could power us for hundreds of years.

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Jay Inslee: but we need to find a way to burn it more cleanly, to take the carbon dioxide which is now going into the atmosphere and making our oceans more acidic and contributing to global warming, to take that carbon dioxide and bury it in the earth for 10,000 years so it's not going to be a problem.