understand what it s like to be in business, and they stand ready to intervene and give real help to get businesses open and projects off the ground. already california is leading the nation in creating jobs in renewable energy and design construction of more efficient buildings and new technologies. our state keeps demanding more efficient structures, cars, machines and electric devices. we do that because we understand that fossil fuels, particularly foreign oil, creates ever rising costs to our economy and to our health. it s true that the real energy sector is small relative to the overall economy, but it pays good wages and will only grow bigger as oil prices increase and the effects of climate change become more obvious and expensive. i set a goal of 20,000 megawatts of renewable energy by 2020. you ve laid the foundation by adopting the requirement that one-third of our electricity come from renewable sources by that date. this morning i can tell you we re on track to