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Where you can get a tax rebate if you get a new water heater. if you insulate the attic, that kind of thing, ok? sounds good. but will that really create new jobs? probably not. will it save that much energy? maybe but these systems have been in place for years and years and years, hasn't made that much of a difference. it's a political move, spread the money around, $6 billion. chuck it out there, see what happens. >> you know, with the cash for clunkers program, that -- as you said, a lot of south korean car manufacturers wound up selling cars but a lot of american dealers wound up making mo...

Stimulus package to weather rise homes and create jobs has only retrofitted a fraction of houses and created far fewer construction jobs than expected. the associated press reports only 30,250 homes have been retrofitted. about 5% of the overall goal. and the project has fallen well short of creating 87,000 jobs as promised. in california, it has created 84 jobs. weatherized 12 homes. in alaska, wyoming, the district of columbia the program has yet to produce a single job or retrofit one home. energy department official contributes the low numbers to the startup phase and says they are on targ...

Program funded by last year's stimulus package to weather rise homes and create jobs has only retrofitted a fraction of houses and created far fewer construction jobs than expected. the associated press reports only 30,250 homes have been retrofitted. about 5% of the overall goal. and the project has fallen well short of creating 87,000 jobs as promised. in california, it has created 84 jobs. weatherized 12 homes. in alaska, wyoming, the district of columbia the program has yet to produce a single job or retrofit one home. energy department official contributes the low numbers to the startup p...

Our homes and buildings. think about that. all of us know that we use a lot of gas in our cars. but in terms of energy usage, 40% of it goes to our homes and our buildings. so, as we're looking for additional initiatives to spur hiring, i think we ought to embrace what's happening on this campus. i think we ought to continue to embrace the incredible potential that awaits us across america in clean energy. so, in my state of the union address, i called on congress to pass a set of initiatives for homeowners who make their homes more energy efficient, to continue the energy transformation that'...

Microwave. the energy star program was created to promote energy efficiency by letting consumers know which appliances, which electronics, would save electricity, and therefore, would save them money over time. the program i'm describing today applies this concept, not to the appliances, but to the home itself, and it takes it further. so, we're going to call it home star, just to make it easy to remember. all right? here's -- here's -- here's how it would work. we'd identify the kinds of building supplies and systems that would save folks energy over time. and here's one of the best things ab...