The President is concerned that disinformation is circulating on he energy bill. His Press Secretary, Mr. Gibbs, explained what President’s top concerns are today in a press briefing:
“I think the biggest thing, and you still see some that oppose taking strong action, say — well, I would say two things: one, that this is going to hurt jobs, not produce jobs. And as you saw in the President’s statement today and as you’ve seen in the investments that we’ve made in clean energy through the Recovery Act, creating a marketplace for clean energy will create jobs. And as the President said today, we’re going to have to figure out in this country whether — those jobs are going to be created. I don’t know if you — who was in the pool for the flight to Buchenwald in Germany, but one of the things that struck me in that helicopter were the number of windmills producing energy in a clean way in Germany. The question is, are we going to produce those jobs that create those blades and build those turbines, or are we going to import them from somewhere else?”
“I think secondly, I think many opponents have either — have used inaccurate information or made up numbers on how much a piece of legislation like this would cost the average American family 11 years from now. CBO reported that — I believe that’s the equivalent of 60 cents a day in 2020.”