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Quality of products, on services, just like everybody else, in any other industry within the world would like to do. >> reporter: but some environmentalists and a group called case coalition dollars for affordable energy says the tariff would drive the price of solar panels way up and kill the momentum solar has built up over the last few years as costs have come down, according to the interstate renewable energy council, solar capacity in 2010 quadrupled in the utility sector and went up 60 percent in residential in just one year. the big question, is that growth sustainable if consumers have...

Epa are not too concerned. they seem to be ire ewing new regulations without a second thought. >> is it standard procedure for an economic analysis to ignore the impact on jobs? >> we didn't do a direct analysis. we sought -- >> you did not do a direct economic analysis? >> we did. various potential costs that we've identified which includes cost of compliance by the utility sector, the cost to the states. as well as various benefits. >> not a cost on jobs? >> not directly. >> what you did do a cost on jobs then indirectly? >> we just looked at the direct cost from come lying with the rule? >>...

Requirement protection agency are not concerned. they seem to be issuing new regulars without a second thought. >> it's a standard procedure for an economic analysis to ignore the impact on jobs? >> we didn't do a direct analysis. >> so you did not do a direct analysis. >> we did a direct analysis of the potential cause we identified, which include costs of compliance by the utility sector, the cost to the state and various benefits. >> but not a cost on jobs? >> not directly. >> so what you didn't do a cost on jobs then, or indirectly. >> we looked at the direct cost of complying. >> so you d...

Emanuel said that begins with the utility sector of our economy, pricing carbon in it, i think that's a significant step forward to a better, safer country. >> let me ask you on a couple of other subjects in our final minutes here. first of all, you have an internet bill that's been called the kill switch bill that would allow the president to seize control or shut down portions of the internet if the u.s. was under some sort of cyber attack. i don't know if you've seen the internet lately, but there's a lot of people out there who think that what you are granting the president is absolute pow...

Social networking site facebook, making a couple acquisitions. facebook shares up 10% in the first three months of the year, and as far as overall sector performance, the utility sector, the high dividend paying, safe haven utility sector was the best performing sector, and when you look at dow winners and losers on this barely changed stock market for the quarter, merck, up 13%. microsoft, scatter -- boeing lost 8%. goldman sack lost 8%. and again electric, your top losers for the quarter, so, barely budging for the quarter. even though we had a lot of big swings in the stock market, facebook...