Posted on 02/06/2021 8:33:54 AM PST by Hojczyk
The shale revolution transformed our country into a net exporter of oil and gas, propelled us into energy independence, and is responsible for creating 2.8 million new jobs.
The average salary of oil and natural gas workers is approximately $112,000, more than double the national private-sector average of $51,000. But oil and gas workers don’t just make double that of the national average. They make double that of wind and solar workers.
According to data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2019 a worker installing solar panels made an average of a little more than $21 an hour. Workers in oil and gas extraction made more than twice as much, at an average of over $42 an hour.
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The oil industry has been driving out economy for the last 8 years and it’s been propping up our economy ever since
You must wear steel-toed boots and provide your own stick.
Remember last time Obummer did his “green jobs” horse shit?
No jobs and money disappeared.
Oh, and remember cash for clunkers? LOL!
This regime is just out to tax and pocket the money themselves.
They will probably give money to the CCP because they owe them.
We get no money and give enough money to Ukraine for each family there to get 59,000? This regime must be stopped. They are going to destroy us.
A barrel of oil per hour for your labor, or half a barrel of oil per hour?
The only true wealth lies in the conversion of various sources of energy into the equivalent amount of electric power. All growth of wealth is predicated upon this conversion.
All energy eventually degrades into heat. But heat can be captured, and recycled into a higher form of energy.
I'm not sure that the skill sets required to work in the oil/gas extraction industry and solar panel installation industry are the same.
When the infrastructure spending starts, the heavy equipment operators will show up where the jobs are. (As they did for the North Dakota oil boom.) I suspect that not very many waiters, waitresses and Broadway actors / musicians will be retrained as heavy equipment operators.)
“Biden’s ‘Green Energy Jobs’ Really Means ‘No Energy Jobs’ And ‘Low-Paying Energy Jobs’”
They forgot one; and also really means NO ENERGY.
If you want a few drug addicts and parolees on your property order solar panels.
I’ve been seriously looking into solar energy of late, mostly to power an off road RV or a small cabin.
What I have learned is, solar power is expensive as hell. It would take around $5000 just for a few lights and a small fridge. Here in Texas you are going to need an AC, which is near impossible on solar. It can be done, but it will about double your price to get set up.
The main drawback though is, it’s unreliable and just not up to the task. On cloudy days you can’t generate enough energy to recharge the batteries.
Maybe someday solar power will work, but as of now it really doesn’t, other than maybe for a few lights and a small appliance.
Somebody needs to carry pots of water from the river to the city. Somebody needs to shoe the horses and clean the road apples. Somebody needs to light the candles in the street lights.
There are jobs galore
What did America use for light before candles?
Electricity.
Gas up 60 cents a gallon at my local station. YAY Chomo Joe.
“necessarily skyrocket”
Being a certified pipe welder is exactly the same as pushing a green button in a solar panel factory. And the infrastructure for a solar panel factory magically pops out of the dirt like a mushroom. YAY CHOMO JOE.
What do certified pipe welders know? Even further, what do engineers know? Nothing at all! They don’t have degrees in Intersectionality and Marxist dielectics. That is all that matters today.
You all laugh at all those so called “grievance study” degrees. That is the degree that will propel people up the corporate ladder as zampolits onward to the executive suite.
Biden’s jobs mean separating plastics and used food containers at the recycling center.
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Many waste management companies recycle only the metal and cardboard, all else goers into the landfill because their is no demand and is unprofitable.
Installers may be paid up to $21/hr, but the people who assemble the panels, those retrained $50-100K/yr oil workers, have to be paid $15/hr federal minimum wage plus benefits including sick and vacation leave. Add in overhead, including shop and materials, and the production cost of that $15/hr panel becomes noncompetitive on the world market against those panels where people are paid $1/day to assemble the panels.
So who does Biden think is going to buy all these overpriced but no more efficient solar panels?
And speaking of energy:
“Inconvenient energy fact: It takes 79 solar workers to produce same amount of electric power as one coal worker”
‘To start, despite a huge workforce of almost 400,000 solar workers (about 20 percent of electric power payrolls in 2016), that sector produced an insignificant share, less than 1 percent, of the electric power generated in the United States last year (EIA data here). And that’s a lot of solar workers: about the same as the combined number of employees working at Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Apple, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Pfizer, Ford Motor Company and Procter & Gamble.
‘In contrast, it took about the same number of natural gas workers (398,235) last year to produce more than one-third of U.S. electric power, or 37 times more electricity than solar’s minuscule share of 0.90 percent. And with only 160,000 coal workers (less than half the number of workers in either solar or gas), that sector produced nearly one-third (almost as much as gas) of U.S. electricity last year.
‘...government policies that have subsidized the solar industry nearly 350 times more than fossil fuels per unit of electricity production.’
“Inconvenient energy fact: It takes 79 solar workers to produce same amount of electric power as one coal worker”
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