PV Gap

Miriam Said:

Why should green jobs be create when every green job destroys on average 4.8 regular jobs?

We Answered:

They shouldnt be because man made global warming is a hoax and most of these green jobs are only temporary.

Sherri Said:

Why should green jobs be create when every green job destroys on average 4.8 regular jobs?

We Answered:

When the government gets into picking "winners" and "losers" the consumer can expect to see costs increase.

If ethanol was a viable alternative energy source it wouldn't need government subsidies.

If wind power was a viable alternative energy source it wouldn't need government subsidies.

If solar power was a viable alternative energy source it wouldn't need government subsidies.

If the typewriter industry had had the lobbyists that ethanol, solar and wind have we might still be manufacturing typewriters.

If Packard and Studebaker had had the lobbyists that Chrysler and General Motors had we might still be manufacturing Packards and Studebakers.

If so-called environmentalists really want to reduce their carbon footprint then they should immediately stop buying bottled water. Approximately 50 million barrels of oil are used to meet the demand for unnecessary bottled water in the USA each year. Apparently the self-styled environmentalists are unaware that large diesel-burning trucks are used to haul this unnecessary product from its manufacturing point to its sales point. Not to mention that about 90% of the empty plastic bottles end up strewn alongside our roads and in landfills.

One last example of environmental/governmental folly: Several years ago batteries for cameras and other devices contained mercury. Mercury is a hazardous material which, disposed of improperly, can cause verifiable damage to people once it enters the food chain. So the EPA banned batteries that contained mercury. During Bush's 2nd. term the environmentalists lobbied to ban incandescent light bulbs beginning with the 100w bulb in 2012 and with a total ban by 2014. GE has already closed a USA plant manufacturing these banned bulbs, costing over 200 jobs. So what wonderful product have the environmentalists decreed should replace the incandescent bulb? Why the incredible Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb (CFL). Unfortunately, there is one minor problem with the CFL - it contains MERCURY! Yes, mercury. The same hazardous material banned in batteries. If you accidentally drop a CFL and it breaks you have a hazardous material spill in your home. A hazardous material spill requires specialized clean up and decontamination. So the government bans mercury in batteries and now mandates that we use a product containing mercury in our homes.

Does anyone really believe that the average person has the knowledge and equipment to deal with this?

Does anyone really believe that every consumer will dispose of burned-out CFLs in an environmentally safe manner?

If you answered "Yes" to those questions I have a really nice bridge for sale along with some ocean front property in Montana.

Ken Said:

Do you agree with Obama/Biden or McCain/Palin on coal?

We Answered:

I was BORN IN A COAL MINING REGION.

Let me first state that coal NEVER turned any place wealthy. It provides mostly low qualified and low wage jobs. It keeps coal mining areas at a competitive disadvantage as they remain in backwards oriented activities requiring a low level of knowledge.

Coal is definitely the dirties fuel on this planet and is a cancer in the economy of producing areas.

Coal mining regions also face many social problems linked with the kind of jobs provided.

Let´s face it: ALL places which do not have coal in developed countries do economically better than places with strong reserves of coal.

Coal is anyway nowadays so productive that it requires a very limited workforce. Unless you artificially decrease the productivity and force hiring useless employees, coal will not create jobs.

A country like Germany in 2007 employes 33.000 people in the coal industry compared to 300.000 in sustainable energy.
And I let you guess which of these two sectors is the ones seeing a boom in exports and has high paying jobs...