Posted on 10/30/2020 8:57:03 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, seeking to allay concerns that his plan to fight climate change would harm the economy, has promised a “clean energy revolution that creates millions of unionized middle-class jobs” if he’s elected.
That vision, however, would require policy makers and clean-energy companies to overcome some major challenges in replacing the number and quality of fossil-fuel jobs that could be lost in a transition away from coal and oil.
Union representation, pay and benefits in the fast-growing wind and solar power industries at the center of a clean energy transition lag those in oil, gas and coal.
Biden’s $2 trillion climate plan envisions a massive shift to cleaner energy sources such as solar and wind over the next three decades. It would also aim to create jobs across a variety of other sectors, including construction, power transmission and electric vehicle manufacturing and charging infrastructure.
The Biden campaign acknowledges the prospect of short-term economic pain as the nation builds a cleaner energy infrastructure.
Fossil fuel workers get better pay. Jobs in fossil-fuel power generation range from $70,310 to $81,460, compared with $46,850 to $64,330 for jobs in solar and wind generation.
About 800,000 people were employed in the production, transmission, storage and combustion of natural gas and coal for electricity in the United States in 2020, according to the U.S. Energy and Employment Report. That compared to around 350,000 people in wind and solar - almost all of whom were employed in construction or installation, rather than in production or transmission, according to the report.
“I challenge you to drive past an operating solar field,” said Mark Johnson, business manager of the Tri-State Building Trades, representing 50 construction unions in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia. “What you won’t see are cars parked where people are working.”
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Biden’s Green Leap Forward faces a challenge to keep the lights on.
They’ll bring back Solyndra to make aircraft skin for Boeing.
I’m in the solar business event install tens of thousands of solar panels and thousands of jobs
What is true is that once I install a solar system nobody needs to ever touch it again because it just works and it works forever
so it is not ongoing work like anything with moving parts such as a refinery or an oil production facility
Now this is a very good thing about solar panels but it is true that once I do my job it’s done and there’s nothing else to do
Even after I go and fix somebody else’s job it usually is less than a day and then that works forever
He destroys the American Oil and Gas Industry while he gets a big part of the Russian, Chinese, and Ukrainian Gas energy. Hmmmm. Sounds like an aggressive business. Eliminate the competition.
“because it just works and it works forever.”
Nothing works forever.
Nothing.
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1. Cleaning, otherwise they lose efficiency.
2. Obsolesce. Panel makers claim they last 25-30 years. It's possible, but not likely as there are no real-world tests. Many of my "30 year" LED bulbs have burnt out in less than 3 years.
As if the communist SOBs in favor of the Green New Deal give two craps about replacing those jobs. They just want to control things and enrich themselves in the process, and if they can crush millions of Trump supporters while they're at it, all the better.
UNIONIZED is the KEY word in Biden’s ambitions.
He & the Dems want EVERY single job in the USA to be UNIONIZED.
Been there-—Done that-—NOT going back.
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