Green Unemployment
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
A significant element of the federal stimulus funding, lavishly bestowed on the nation by elected leaders who get very pleased with themselves when they are spending other people's money, involved the jump-start dollars for further expanding the green economy. During the 2009 Nevada Legislative session, Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford championed the approach of taking the ear-marked funds for green energy development and putting it into a jobs bill, oriented to training workers for energy audits and other aspects of cashing in on the politically-correct industry of alternative energy.
We are also told by other key leaders, including our U.S. Senator Harry Reid, that the future of green power goes beyond a smaller carbon foot print and cooler earth temperatures -- there's also economic opportunity and employment to improve the taste of the bitter pill of higher energy cost and further expansion of a centrally-directed system.
With all this in mind, it interesting to read pieces like this, which seem to indicate that in other parts of the world, their chase for green hasn't been quite as successful as we're supposed to accept as a given.
A significant element of the federal stimulus funding, lavishly bestowed on the nation by elected leaders who get very pleased with themselves when they are spending other people's money, involved the jump-start dollars for further expanding the green economy. During the 2009 Nevada Legislative session, Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford championed the approach of taking the ear-marked funds for green energy development and putting it into a jobs bill, oriented to training workers for energy audits and other aspects of cashing in on the politically-correct industry of alternative energy.
We are also told by other key leaders, including our U.S. Senator Harry Reid, that the future of green power goes beyond a smaller carbon foot print and cooler earth temperatures -- there's also economic opportunity and employment to improve the taste of the bitter pill of higher energy cost and further expansion of a centrally-directed system.
With all this in mind, it interesting to read pieces like this, which seem to indicate that in other parts of the world, their chase for green hasn't been quite as successful as we're supposed to accept as a given.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 7/28/2009 9:13 AM 
Categories: Alternative Energy
Tags: Unemployment Nevada Alternative Energy
Categories: Alternative Energy
Tags: Unemployment Nevada Alternative Energy
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