Healing Is A Moral Thing To Do.

It Is A Happy Coincidence Between What My Constituents Believe And My Interests.

Air Is One We Hold In Common; It Has A Limited Carrying Capacity For Pollutants And That's Being Used Up By Those Who Pollute The Atmosphere. So We Have To Stop That Externality. We Would Never Allow A Utility To Put Their Coal Slag In A Dump Truck And Back It Up To The City Park And Dump It In Unlimited Amounts For Free. But That Is Exactly What We Do With Carbon Dioxide And Methane.

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.

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.

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.