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Hillary Clinton Brings Climate Change Home to South Carolina

-- Emma -- 10/16/2007

This weekend in Florence, SC, Hillary Clinton talked about global warming in a town hall meeting at Wilson High School. She started off by praising Al Gore for his longstanding dedication to raising awareness about global warming and for his Nobel Peace Prize, saying, "I think every American should be proud. Because what he won the Nobel Prize for is part of what we have to do here at home to begin to get prepared for the future. We’ve got to tackle the challenges we confront, we can’t act like they’re not important or don’t exist."

She went on to link developing renewable sources of fuel to job creation and energy independence. "Germany is ahead of us, because they made a decision that they were going to have 25 percent of their electricity produced from solar power by 2030. So they’ve already created 285,000 new jobs," she said. "I want to have a strategic energy fund. And here’s how I would pay for it: take the tax subsidies away from the oil companies and put them to work for us."

Senator Clinton went on to explain why climate change is important to people everywhere, including South Carolina: "You see these poor polar bears that have nowhere to go, that’s heartbreaking. We’ve got to act because of that. But if you live along the coast, as a lot of people in South Carolina do, a lot of people in New York do, your home owner’s insurance policies are going up right now. In New York, I have people losing their insurance because the insurance companies have done long-term weather projections. And they’ve concluded we’re going to have a lot more intense and frequent storms, so they’re raising the costs or they’re pulling out of the market. So this is a real world challenge that we’re confronting, right here in America, and we’ve got to get serious about addressing it. So I think we could have a triple win: enhance our security, deal with global warming, and put millions of Americans to work. And that’s what I would do."

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