Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/07/2011 11:02:03 AM PDT by Justaham
In his weekly address Barack Obama told the country that green energy jobs are “the jobs of the future.”
The president continued to push his green agenda this week.
At least 7 oil rigs moved out of the Gulf area to other parts of the world since President Obama initiated his oil moratorium last year. Obama’s energy plan includes blocking domestic drilling here at home.
According to international studies subsidizing renewable energy in the U.S. may destroy two jobs for every one created. A study by researchers at King Juan Carlos University in 2009 found that 2.2 jobs were destroyed for every green job manufactured through government mechanisms. Only one in ten of those green jobs will be permanent.
But facts don’t matter to our far left president. Not only has he killed tens of thousands of jobs in the energy sector he still insists that the expensive government dependent green sector will provide the “jobs of the future.”
Today he delivered his Weekly Address from another “green” company that received $62.8 million in stimulus cash.
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Obama is an idiot.
In third world USA.
It's awfully disappointing to realize the number of Americans STUPID enough to fall for this "feel good" crap at the cost of our wealth and freedom.
Interesting that the whole “green” druidic movement really took off after the fall of Communism
Anyone have the amount of political contributions from the taxpayer supported “green” companies and/or their officers, directors, stockholders etc.?
Don't ever turn your back on idiots Jim, they won't take kindly to that slamming remark!
He gives idiots a bad name.
One thing he doesn’t understand is that if we don’t look at what’s going on today, we won’t have a future unless we are all under government control.
But, the future’s not here yet.
Ahhh ,Telegram for Mr Kenyan Dufas: Your Mr Fusion currently is on 50 year back order!!
Appoint Michelle the Green Sar!
First all people will be required to report to a Green zone clinic one a month. they will be measured and weighed. Of they do not fit the greem profile they will be liposuctioned till they fit the mold. The scuked up stuff will be processed into ethenoil and sold to gass stations as a fuel alternative.
Government motors will convert auto mobiles into fat burning vehickles.
Jenny Craig will be put on unemployment amd the sky will be blew.
Howsa bout that energize plun.
The support for the green companies by investors is not there. They will quickly die out after the subsidies are removed.
It is amazing how many lefties are unwilling to invest in green companies. Every greenie I have talked to has refused to do so.
Maybe they know something?......
There may well be great jobs in renewable energy in the future, but if so, it won’t be because of Obama or the gummint. It will only be because the free market capitalist economy decided they are worth paying someone to do. Even the Chicoms are learning this lesson, whereas Obama and liberals have forgotten what little may have leaked into their mush-filled skulls when their tinfoils hats were removed.
At one time it would have been ludicrous to think people could earn a good living by making images and text appear on computer screens too. Technology makes all kinds of things possible but only when those things solve a problem that someone is willing to pay for better than the next-best alternative. Capitalism 101.
And green energy ain’t too big to fail...
Now we have central economic planning, just like the Soviet Union did. “Green” (windmill) jobs are the jobs of the future, because the government says so.
We’re wasting time and resources. If “green” energy was so hot, we’d have a lot of it by now. They’re still talking about the same “green” energy resources they were playing with 35 years ago.
You know why, I'm sure. Communism was out to crush capitalism. Greenism's objectives are the same.
In another system for development, though, you have people at the top who think that their idea is the only one that will work, or their method is the only one that will get the job done. Centralized thinking means few choices, and the chances of coming up with an optimal choice are slim. Even then, you will have mavericks who will go their own way anyway; think "NASA".
The 1600 Resident may not like how long it's taking -- and that's true for the last half-dozen or so residents before him as well. We're seeing some promising technology on many fronts; we're also seeing the downsides now, too. (Windmill gearboxes, anyone?) Even something as old as electric cars has not progressed to the point where an electric can compete well with its hydrocarbon-driven counterparts. Did you know that electric cars were first demonstrated in the 1830s?
How about alternative fuels? LPG is already in commercial use, but the infrastructure isn't in place to support a broad customer base like the American population. Slush hydrogen isn't out of the lab...yet. Flintstone-mobiles don't work well at all in the hills of San Francisco. Solar powered vehicles? Try taking one through a tunnel...although the trials of solar-powered aircraft look promising. The whole bio-fuel thing runs up against tension between food and go-juice, until someone finds a crop that isn't food, too. And, of course, there is the fuel that hasn't been thought up yet.
(Bell Labs used to develop project plans that had the milestone "here a miracle occurs". It was amazing how many times those projects met that particular milestone. But then again, Bell Labs has a lot of people working pure science, so those miracles could happen.)
Wish all you want, Mr. Present. But the real advances will be made by people funded by private investors, investors who want to see a return. Not everyone has to win. Just some have to win for capitalism to work, and work well.
And who knows, some mad scientist may indeed come up with Flubber, or something like it, that will allow all of us around the world to look at a completely new way of travel. "Here a miracle occurs."
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