Right now the coal industry employees 1.2 million think about it people will be with out jobs
ronald witzman
of FL
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Sep 17, 2009 09:42:34 AM
Green Jobs
Great! 2 million jobs to be filled with existing energy workers. Lets see, that leaves zero jobs for the rest of us. Nice work.
Meanwhile, there are at least 7 million unemployed people of various skill sets.
How many of them do you think will be able to climb a windmill? Be on the roof in the sun for 12 hours a day?
Not many, so PLEASE STOP THE LIES! There are no "Green Jobs" any more than there is a "Warp Drive".
I am sick of the US government spin machine. Our jobs are gone. We are going down in flames and no one can fix it.
A dumb asss plan to send people to the moon? WTF is that? We have the money to blow on human spaceflight, a dead end proposition, and can't even build the rocket to do the job.
Our economy will never approach what we had 15 years ago. The USA is done.
Get used to making $8 an hour working at Walmart or McDonalds, because that is all that is left.
DaveH
of NC
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May 21, 2009 20:20:39 PM
Pay a little now or a lot later
The U.S. is in the final phases of spending $3T invading the wrong country, including the financing costs of borrowing the money from the Chinese (who else?). It is curious that people are willing to support that without question, at least until it is too late, but won't spend it on energy efficiency or alternate fuels to reduce our dependence on imports. And it is even more curious since we don't have any option in the matter whatsoever. The oil is running out. We either spend it now on our own timetable, or wait until an oil cutoff from the Persian Gulf and spend it in a panic mode on someone else's schedule. Those are the options.
James Fox
of PA
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Mar 26, 2009 21:32:55 PM
Green Jobs
great. The jobs will be there but where will the U.S. manufacturing infrastructure come from? where will the iron ore come from? where will the steel come from that is needed for windmills, nuclear containment vessels, even the transoportation vehicles for the farce that is called ethanol? It will come from China, Korea, and Russia because the very same party that now yells about "Green", is the one, with the help of their buddies the unions, taxed right out of the country years ago. The "Green" will continue to export our financial wealth for the raw materials and the hard goods that we no longer make here in any quantity and no longer have the plants available as thyey are but rusting hulks if they have not been turned into "lofts" for the 30 somethings that can afford the restructure from plants and warehouses to fine living quarter million dollar flats and effiencies. even the housing projects are now better than the homes and apartments that the bulk of those in the owrk force can afford.
D H
of GA
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Mar 26, 2009 14:41:15 PM
I agree Ken,
The US can spend as much money on energy as it wants to, but it won't change the fact that China has been building and will continue to build coal plants full throttle.
JW
of TX
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Mar 26, 2009 14:03:05 PM
Green jobs
STOP and review what has happened to ethanol. It was a big flash in the pan to save fossil fuels. Now where is it at as an industry? Consumed too much corn and drove up food prices. Takes too much water and has depleted aquifers. Too costly to transport to mixing stations to dilute gasoline. these are just a few of the downsides discovered in a few years since companies were formed (now many in near bankruptcy) to build and run ethanol plants.
Lets be careful, measure twice, and saw once! Silver bullets do not exist. Trust what we know--coal, nuclear, etc.
Why is Diane Feinstein against putting windmills in the Mojave Desert? Goes to the hypocrisy in this "all or nothing" green movement.
Ken
of WI
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Mar 26, 2009 13:54:13 PM
Lots of Coal
The US has hundreds of years of coal reserves. Of course we can produce cleaner energy, but it will come with a high price tag.
JW
of TX
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Mar 26, 2009 13:24:43 PM
Great video
Our fund, SJF Ventures (SJF=Sustainable Jobs Fund) has been investing successfully in green jobs companies for 10 years and are delighted to see the theme finally being picked up broadly. Our portfolio includes some great examples, like groSolar, CleanScapes, Salvage Direct, Intechra --- companies cleaning up the earth, employing hundreds of folks, and growing like crazy. See www.sjfund.com
David Kirkpatrick
of NC
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Mar 25, 2009 23:48:29 PM
$$
Somebody has to pay for the green jobs, and conversion to less efficient energy sources will be permanently costly. Hard to see how this will help the economy no matter how essential it may be wean ourselves from oil and CO2.
ronald witzman of FL @ Sep 17, 2009 09:42:34 AM
DaveH of NC @ May 21, 2009 20:20:39 PM
James Fox of PA @ Mar 26, 2009 21:32:55 PM
D H of GA @ Mar 26, 2009 14:41:15 PM
JW of TX @ Mar 26, 2009 14:03:05 PM
Ken of WI @ Mar 26, 2009 13:54:13 PM
JW of TX @ Mar 26, 2009 13:24:43 PM
David Kirkpatrick of NC @ Mar 25, 2009 23:48:29 PM
Luther of IL @ Mar 25, 2009 14:33:15 PM
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