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With 1 Million Square Miles Of The Arctic Melting Unexpectedly This Summer, These Are Warning Signs That We Have To Act And Act Now. Our Addiction To Middle Eastern Oil Obviously Has Security Implications, And We Think It's About Time To Be Generating Eastern Washington Wind Energy Instead Of Sending Our Money To The Sheikhs.

We [usa And China] Have A Common Responsibility With Different Numerical Targets, And That's The Situation Ultimately We Are Going To Have With China. We Emit Six Times More Per Person Than They Do. It's Hard To Tell Them To Cut Theirs In Half Right Now Until We Start Moving. Being The Ostrich With Your Head In The Sand And Tail Feathers In The Air Like Some Would Have Us To Do While China Continues To Pollute Is Simply Not An Option.

Air Is One We Hold In Common; It Has A Limited Carrying Capacity For Pollutants And That's Being Used Up By Those Who Pollute The Atmosphere. So We Have To Stop That Externality. We Would Never Allow A Utility To Put Their Coal Slag In A Dump Truck And Back It Up To The City Park And Dump It In Unlimited Amounts For Free. But That Is Exactly What We Do With Carbon Dioxide And Methane.

So We Are Now Still Dependent On Foreign Oil, Have A Problem With Global Warming, And Are Losing Jobs Rapidly To The Japanese In Fuel-efficient Vehicles As A Result Of That Very Shortsighted Progress.

I Am Excited About Focusing Full-time On Talking About My Job-creation Agenda And Building A New Economy For Washington State. We Have A Great Chance To Seize Our Own Destiny, Build Our Own Industries, And Create Our Own Technological Revolutions Right Here At Home.