Comments on: Legislative Looney Toones http://www.scpronet.com/wordpress/2009/02/15/legislative-looney-toones/ SC Progressive Network news and views Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:01:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Brett Bursey http://www.scpronet.com/wordpress/2009/02/15/legislative-looney-toones/comment-page-1/#comment-54996 Brett Bursey Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:44:42 +0000 http://www.scpronet.com/wordpress/?p=1325#comment-54996 The vast majority of jobs created through a green economic recovery program are in the same areas of employment that people already work in today. Constructing wind farms, for example, creates jobs for sheet metal workers, machinists, and truck drivers, among many others. Increasing the energy efficiency of buildings through retrofitting requires roofers, insulators, and building inspectors. These are jobs local South Carolinians can fill. Most of the temporary jobs building a nuclear reactor come from a transient work force that specializes in this type of one time construction. For every billion spent on green jobs, we can create over 25,000 jobs. That would be around 100,000 jobs for the cost of a nuke that would create 4,000 jobs to build. You too can know facts that come from somewhere other than the corporations that want to keep us on THEIR grid. There are good state based studies on green energy alternatives at www.americanprogress.org. The vast majority of jobs created through a green economic recovery program are in the same areas of employment that people already work in today. Constructing wind farms, for example, creates jobs for sheet metal workers,
machinists, and truck drivers, among many others. Increasing the energy efficiency of buildings through retrofitting requires roofers, insulators, and building inspectors. These are jobs local South Carolinians can fill. Most of the temporary jobs building a nuclear reactor come from a transient work force that specializes in this type of one time construction. For every billion spent on green jobs, we can create over 25,000 jobs. That would be around 100,000 jobs for the cost of a nuke that would create 4,000 jobs to build.

You too can know facts that come from somewhere other than the corporations that want to keep us on THEIR grid. There are good state based studies on green energy alternatives at http://www.americanprogress.org.

]]> By: Alan Nelson http://www.scpronet.com/wordpress/2009/02/15/legislative-looney-toones/comment-page-1/#comment-54994 Alan Nelson Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:50:44 +0000 http://www.scpronet.com/wordpress/?p=1325#comment-54994 How many of us would install solar panels if we could pay for them incrementally over a decade? How many good and enduring jobs could be generated if we put support behind real renewables? The $4.5 billion dollar reactor is predicted to provide 500 jobs after construction. That’s a cost of $9 million a job. If this post weren't so patetically stupid, it would be funny. Renewables. Right. Why don't people put their money where their mouths are and disconnect from the gird? Rely stricly on solar, wind and the rest? Why? Because you morons already know it won't work and it's unaffordable. As for SCE&G paying for it upfront, take an econ class, please! It will be much cheaper paying for it that way, than waiting until it's finished. You're likely the same dolts who voted for Obama, thinking that we can all get out of debt by going into more debt - yep. Good plan. Good luck with that too. How many of us would install solar panels if we could pay for them incrementally over a decade? How many good and enduring jobs could be generated if we put support behind real renewables? The $4.5 billion dollar reactor is predicted to provide 500 jobs after construction. That’s a cost of $9 million a job.

If this post weren’t so patetically stupid, it would be funny. Renewables. Right. Why don’t people put their money where their mouths are and disconnect from the gird? Rely stricly on solar, wind and the rest? Why? Because you morons already know it won’t work and it’s unaffordable. As for SCE&G paying for it upfront, take an econ class, please! It will be much cheaper paying for it that way, than waiting until it’s finished. You’re likely the same dolts who voted for Obama, thinking that we can all get out of debt by going into more debt – yep. Good plan. Good luck with that too.

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