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. >> energy secretary stephen chu looking for friends on the energy bill.t up a facebook page to do that. will this keep climate change front and center or will health care overshadow that. mike splinter, ceo of applied materials who met with the president earlier this month. >> i did. >> talk about solar in general. >> most people we have on when we talk about cap and trade want to see the senate water it down. you're worried they will. >> exactly. >> why? >> well, there's a couple of things that are important to the energy conversion that's going to happen over the upcoming decade. number one is distributed generation. that means solar energy. having that being an important part of whatever energy bill gets done is critical and also a renewable electricity standard to motivate utilities to do that conversion and really get moving on it. >> all those things, all those benefits offset the costs some argue you might get from cap and trade system. >> we have to be thinking about where the jobs are doing to be coming from over the next decade. in the energy se

this is stephen chu, secretary of energy for the obama administration.aid what the american family does not want to spay an increasing fraction of their budget for energy costs. he said further, he said a cap-and-trade bill will likely increase the cost of electricity -- this is the secretary of energy under president obama -- will likely increase the cost of electricity. these costs will be passed on to consumers. but the issue is how does it actually -- how do we interact in terms with the rest of the world? if other countries don't impose a cost on carbon, then we would be at a disadvantage. we should look at considering duties that would offset that cost. then, of course, the chairman of our committee, senator boxer, said the biggest priority is to soften the blow on our trade-sensitive industries and our consumers. i just want you to know that that is the goal. well, i'm glad that she's saying that's a goal, because i think that is her feeling. we had senator mccaskill weighing in. i kind of agree with some of the things she said. we need to be a le