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Politics : Rat's Nest - Chronicles of Collapse
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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (11201)9/1/2010 12:03:24 AM
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That is the question.

Creating jobs and savings with energy efficiency
Upgrading just 40% of buildings would generate 625,000 jobs and cut U.S. energy bills up to $64 billion a year
August 31, 2010
Energy efficiency is THE core climate solution: The biggest low-carbon resource by far. “Efficiency Works,” a major new report by Bracken Hendricks, Bill Campbell, Pen Goodale, finds that a straightforward set of policies aimed at upgrading just 40% of the residential and commercial building stock in the United States would:

Create 625,000 sustained full-time jobs over a decade
Spark $500 billion in new investments to upgrade 50 million homes and office buildings
Generate as much as $64 billion a year in cost savings for U.S. ratepayers, freeing consumers to spend their money in more productihttp://climateprogress.org/2010/08/31/creating-jobs-and-savings-with-energy-efficiency/ve ways
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