I'd agree with a lot of what Mr. McGowan said. I believe part of what you were making a point around is that we need to deal with energy efficiency as part of a real energy security strategy to reduce our overall use of energy.
From my perspective, a true energy security strategy would also be transitioning us to renewable sources of energy. Inherent in that is needing to address the need for jobs in the energy sector. Energy efficiency also creates jobs, as we saw with the hugely successful federal ecoENERGY retrofit for homes program, which was creating ten dollars of investment per dollar of federal funding for things like retrofitting windows and doors, etc.
Saving energy can create jobs as well, and that needs to be part of it.