Green Energy Jobs - Not happening - Needs to be cut from gov't "investment" (spending)

[AeroGuyDC]

Originally Posted by Quick Enough

Two solar panel plant, one that Obama visited, just go under. This after getting $535million loan guarantee loan from the taxpayers.

"the company became the first recipient of an Energy Department loan guarantee under the stimulus in March 2009, which was intended to “finance construction of the first phase of the company’s new manufacturing facility” for photovoltaic solar panels."

“These jobs are the jobs that are going to define the 21st century that will allow America to compete and to lead like we did in the 20th century,” Biden said."
Solar power firm goes bankrupt after receiving millions of taxpayer dollars « Wintery Knight

LOL...should we assume that Obama will be touting this failure during his campaign? Of course not. Does this President have any successes to campaign on at all? It's really pretty embarrassing.

[KUchief25]

Originally Posted by Winter_Sucks

How about we quit subsidizing the dirty energy industry and then use that extra cash to invest in clean energy subsidies. We can eventually stop helping the clean energy industry once they have received the same amount of help that the dirty energy industry has received over the decades.

How bout somebody finds something that will work?? Then one won't need any subsidies. This "green" insanity is like the dot com boom back in the day but its funded by taxpayers not investors. The government chooses the winners and losers, with the help of their lobbyist friends of course, not the private industry. That has fail written all over it yet we charge on.

[C.C]

C'mon - you can't have "green jobs" without a "green jobs czar" can you? Without Van Jones to lead us to the promised land of "green jobs", what can you expect???

[KUchief25]

I had forgotten about that lunatic. Thanks for reminding me......NOT!!

[Oildog]

In some places they make sense, others not so much. Shouldn't be subsidized by my tax dollar though. I'm talking to you corn based ethanol.

[ambient]

Clean Tech will play an increasingly important role in our future, but it's not going to even move a decimal in our current jobs crisis - especially with the sloppy and inefficient force of government effectively running the whole scene. It's getting old watching Obama stump at some fancy ceramic battery plant that employs 50 people at a taxpayer-subsidized cost of like $2m per job.

[censusdata]

Some Green Building techniques are common sense and cost nothing extra. Examples include ceiling vaults to let sun light in (esp large buildings like schools or big box stores).

Now stuff like Green Roofing is economic SciFi. Mandating that is a good way to run businesses out to the suburbs