Your Take: Job Creation Begins at Home
Today the Senate Energy Committee will begin debating a weatherization bill known as Home Star that aims to make American homes more energy efficient, while creating thousands of American jobs in the process. Home Star has the potential to significantly reduce residential energy consumption, saving consumers almost $10 billion over the next 10 years, while cutting greenhouse gas emissions by an amount equivalent to removing more than 600,000 cars from American highways.
Today the Senate Energy Committee will begin debating a weatherization bill known as Home Star that aims to make American homes more energy efficient, while creating thousands of American jobs in the process. Home Star has the potential to significantly reduce residential energy consumption, saving consumers almost $10 billion over the next 10 years, while cutting greenhouse gas emissions by an amount equivalent to removing more than 600,000 cars from American highways.
Even more importantly, given the state of our economy, the legislation is projected to create 168,000 local jobs in communities all across the country and that, more than anything else, is what Americans urgently want, particularly the people who have been hardest hit by the tough economic times-poor people and people of color.
