Calling federally funded weatherization of private homes a "no-brainer," Vice President Biden gave Republicans a new opening to criticize the lack of jobs created by stimulus spending
At an event in New Hampshire, Biden said the administration is about one-third of the way to realizing President Obama's goal of weatherizing 600,000 homes.
"If we keep up the current weatherization pace, we'll lessen our dependence on foreign oil by 1.5 million barrels, the equivalent of going out today, waving a wand and taking 107,000 automobiles off the road permanently, saving consumers a lot of money," Biden said.
Republicans noted that last year, Obama and Biden promised the stimulus funding would weatherize at least 2 million homes.
And Biden's claim that weatherizing homes was a jobs generator also drew detractors, noting the recession took 8 million jobs and the $814 billion stimulus has created at most 3.3 million jobs.
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