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Where Have All the Green Jobs Gone?
The Nation ^ | April 22, 2014 | by Michelle Chen

Posted on 05/03/2014 8:14:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Gen.Blather

Even if Thomas Gold’s theory is correct, it will cost vastly more to drill miles deep. Fundamental economics and free markets should still determine the most cost-effective method to meet the energy demands of consumers.


21 posted on 05/03/2014 8:49:04 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oil and gas are hydrocarbon based....so are organic ...thus here are the “Green” jobs...in West Texas, ND and other fracking places.


22 posted on 05/03/2014 8:51:32 AM PDT by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Even if Thomas Gold’s theory is correct, it will cost vastly more to drill miles deep. “

You are absolutely correct. But I think people should begin to rethink using the words “fossil fuel” which implies once it’s gone it’s gone for good. The result of that thinking is...GO GREEN! Whether it makes sense to do so or not. As you point out, it’ doesn’t make sense to do so until there’s a reason for it. That reason will be economic.


23 posted on 05/03/2014 8:52:53 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: factoryrat

The green jobs went to China but the green jobs billions went to DC lobbyists, community organizers, campaign donors, and other parasites.


24 posted on 05/03/2014 8:53:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Eastern Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a once prosperous old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn.

And daddy won't you take me back to old Perry County
Down by the Kentucky River where Economic survival did lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Obama’s Climate Change hoax has hauled it away

Well, sometimes we'd hear lies about the warmest year ever,
But the weatherman would tell us about a 100 year old unbroken heat record,
And real scientists know that CO2 has been detrimental to the Earth never,
And the politicians and carbon credit scammers would like us all to be Algored.

(Parody of John Prine’s Paradise)

25 posted on 05/03/2014 8:54:59 AM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Long Time Passing”???????????????


26 posted on 05/03/2014 8:57:06 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: Iron Munro

Once Again,You Stole My Thunder!!Great Minds???????????


27 posted on 05/03/2014 8:57:51 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

1. The projects are almost all bankrupt.

2. The money has gone into Obama’s cronys’ pockets.

3. Time to move on . . . and create more green jobs!


28 posted on 05/03/2014 9:19:04 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“How the tiny extreme fringe of envirokooks came to dictate how we live our lives and force things we don’t want on us is a huge mystery.”

It began with Richard Nixon’s malignant idea of the EPA. The true believers in the environmentalist religion discovered they could expand their power by writing regulations that had the force of law. By brainwashing the stupid taxpayers into accepting their mainly bogus “Endangered Species” listings, they could take over private property by calling it a ‘wetland,” kill entire industries for the Spotted Owl, and stop dams, developments and agriculture by citing a minnow or salamander’s rights. This should never have happened in the USA.


29 posted on 05/03/2014 9:21:49 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: PATRIOT1876

Bravo!


30 posted on 05/03/2014 9:29:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: cicero2k

That’s sad.


31 posted on 05/03/2014 9:38:21 AM PDT by FrdmLvr ("WE ARE ALL OSAMA, 0BAMA!" al-Qaeda terrorists who breached the American compound in Benghazi)
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To: traderrob6

It’s The Nation. It’s basically an old school publication for unreconstructed Marxists who are up on using all the new Leftist terminology. No one there with a lick of sense about real business.


32 posted on 05/03/2014 9:54:30 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: traderrob6

Why I instinctively start puking when I hear that phrase “social justice” or getting “justice” of some sort. When you hear someone spouting that phrase or words, you know you have an ignoramus or an outright communist.


33 posted on 05/03/2014 10:10:48 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Ah, the ‘green jobs’ were ‘shovel ready’ and got buried under six feet of decomposing rhetorical compost. Obama told the truth: the jobs died a merciful death after his donors soaked up the taxpayer's millions of dollars in fraudulent payments.
34 posted on 05/03/2014 10:31:08 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: Iron Munro

Thank you. I have always said “follow the money”. Additonally, citizens need to be aware that the Environmental Lobby and the Politicians they buy are the greatest danger facing the U.S. Ecoonomy and it’s Security.


35 posted on 05/03/2014 10:42:07 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: SusaninOhio

I’m sure he meant well. Bill O’Reilly stated that Obama is a “Patriot” and “his heart is in the right place.”

You just have to give his genius time to work; it takes time to undo all the damage of Bush and george Washington.

...I’m kidding, of course....


36 posted on 05/03/2014 1:57:52 PM PDT by Reverend Saltine (Saltines are dry, white, and make you thirsty. And then you want more and you get thirsty-er....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Paging Van Jones.
Paging Van Jones.
What did you do with all those green jobs you czared, commie boy?
37 posted on 05/05/2014 2:31:50 PM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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