Here's the bottom line: If Congress flips the switch, we can:

• Cut 20% of our global warming emissions by 2030 and make significant progress on the long term reductions in global-warming pollution that we need, according to the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE).
  
  
• Save consumers more than $25 billion at the pump and billions more on their home energy bills.
  
  
• Bring a new clean energy economy to life -- an energy economy that, according to studies by the Union of Concerned Scientists, will keep and create hundreds of thousands of new, good-paying American jobs.
  
  
• Share the wealth! Instead of making Big Energy -- some the richest companies in the world -- richer, this energy legislation would benefit consumers and working Americans.

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