"Green Stimulus Money Costs More Jobs Than It Creates, Study Shows
Every “green job” created with government money in Spain over the last eight years came at the cost of 2.2 regular jobs, and only one in 10 of the newly created green jobs became a permanent job, says a new study released this month. The study draws parallels with the green jobs programs of the Obama administration. President Obama, in fact, has used Spain’s green initiative as a blueprint for how the United States should use federal funds to stimulate the economy. Obama's economic stimulus package,which Congress passed in February, allocates billions of dollars to the green jobs industry."
I have often noticed the disparity between the TENS of THOUSANDS of JOBS we are SHEDDING with the GREEN PROMISE of HUNDREDS!!!
See: Stimulus Windfall
The MSM's Fart-Misting Lies
Also see: THE GREEN AGENDA
Gonna STEAL LOOT at the SAME TIME with their special access and connections (as well as a little bit of $$$), too!!!
"Green energy sets up shop in Washington" by Scott Kirsner, Globe Columnist | May 17, 2009
In the months since the inauguration, companies working on new kinds of batteries, carbon sequestration techniques, and energy efficiency materials for buildings have hired lobbying firms and dedicated teams of employees to figure out how to land a portion of $100 billion in loan guarantees, grants, and other funding that's expected to start flowing as a result of the Recovery Act.
"Emerging technology companies in the energy space are landing in Washington like locusts," says Mitch Tyson, chief executive of Advanced Electron Beams, a Wilmington start-up that is just now hiring Holland & Knight LLP to handle its lobbying.
Hemant Taneja, a venture capitalist at Cambridge-based General Catalyst Partners, says that all of the energy-related companies in his portfolio are hiring government relations specialists and lobbyists: "This is a $10,000-a-month expense that could yield significant capital for our businesses, which are really capital-intensive."
Well, now you know why that 401k tanked and college tuiton rose, readers:
Pfffffft! SMELL the FART MIST, do ya, 'murkn?
Stimulus funding is the hot topic in clean-tech circles right now. The New England Clean Energy Council organized a field trip to D.C. last month to speak with administration officials like Carol Browner, the president's special assistant for energy and climate change. And last week, the Department of Energy hired David Danielson from General Catalyst Partners to help dole out $400 million as part of a newly-funded program called the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy, or ARPA-E.
The better-known ARPA, of course, is the group within the Department of Defense that helped launched the Internet (whose predecessor was known as the ARPANET). And the hope is that the federal government's stimulus funding will help spark a similar kind of explosive growth for the green energy sector - even if it takes a decade or two to really pay off.
That's the time frame they expect to loot your tax dollars, folks.
And don't you LOVE the MILITARIZATION of the ENVIRONMENT AGENDA?
Is their NOTHING America doesn't turn into a WAR?
Steve McBee, chief executive of McBee Strategic Consulting, a Washington lobbying firm working with several local companies, estimates that about $50 billion of the $800 billion stimulus package will go to renewable energy and energy efficiency - and that's on top of $50 billion in Department of Energy loan guarantees that preceded the stimulus package, but have only just begun to flow.
That funding could help solidify Massachusetts' position as a center of gravity for changing the way the world produces and uses energy. And local companies have all kinds of plans for how they'll use the money.... which would create about 60 full-time jobs.... The Massachusetts facility could employ more than 600 people....
Could? We LOST 20,000 jobs in MARCH ALONE!!!!
For venture capitalists who have poured millions into clean-tech companies, the government funding is a godsend: At a time when their companies can't go public, and few of them have matured to the point where they're appealing acquisitions for an ExxonMobil or a BP, stimulus money will allow companies to survive longer, take more shots on goal, and ideally develop something that both benefits society and their investors.
But YOU KNOW WHO comes FIRST, don't you, 'murkn?
Will some of the companies that get government money fail? Absolutely. (Just last week, Cambridge-based GreenFuel Technologies, which used specially bred algae to turn carbon dioxide into biodiesel, announced that it was shutting down after gobbling up $70 million in private funding.)
Yeah, all the time spent reading the the Globe has also informed me that green companies rarely if ever make a profit -- and yet more taxpayer dollars are plowed into them year after year.
And where are the enviro-protesters, huh: The World's Biggest Polluter
"I think you have to accept the fact that you'll see some of these companies flame-out, and capital will be lost," says Hemant Taneja, who acknowledges that venture capitalists have "gone overboard" in funding too many clean-tech start-ups over the past few years.
Yeah, JUST ACCEPT BEING ROBBED, American taxpayers and pensioners!
"But you'll also see some brilliant, big companies that will get built, and will be good for climate change and economic development...."
Yup, KEEP SPEWING the SAME SHIT LIES, fart-mister!
Here are a couple projects your money is being thrown away on, America....
"State seeks $6.5m for clean vehicles" by Erin Ailworth, Globe Staff | May 21, 2009
The state is seeking $6.5 million in stimulus funding from the federal Energy Department to spur the use of hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles by municipalities, private companies, and government agencies.
"Our single biggest greenhouse gas emitter is transportation," said Philip Giudice, commissioner of the state Department of Energy Resources. The money - which would be used to purchase about 315 vehicles, including buses that run on compressed natural gas and hybrid trucks and taxis - is not guaranteed, but Giudice said he has "high expectations." Several communities and agencies have already indicated they want to upgrade their vehicle fleets. In Boston, city officials want to build five electric vehicle charging stations and add plug-in hybrids to their fleet.
Seth Kaplan, an environmental advocate with the Conservation Law Foundation, said the focus on clean vehicles is a good way to demonstrate Massachusetts's commitment to the environment while also lowering transportation costs. "Everybody's looking not only for an opportunity to go green but also to save money," Kaplan said.
--more--"
Yeah, Kaplan and that crew are the same ones who want to burn down our forests.
See: Wealthy Responsible For Global Warming
Next!
"Northeast trails in race for rail funds; $8b in US aid is up for grabs" by Alan Wirzbicki, Globe Correspondent | May 18, 2009
WASHINGTON - As the Obama administration prepares to hand out $8 billion in seed money for a national network of fast trains, New England finds itself competing against states and regions that have put far more time and money into planning.
Until late last year, New England lacked a regionwide high-speed rail organization - an illustration, transit advocates said, of the region's belated effort to craft a high-speed rail plan encompassing all six states. As a result, advocates fear, a region that hosts the fastest train in the nation, Amtrak's Acela, and has no shortage of ideas for improved rail service, may miss out on the funding in favor of California and the Midwest, which have been methodically developing high-speed rail plans for decades....
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California, which has been planning a high-speed rail line between San Francisco and Los Angeles since the 1990s, and a consortium of Midwestern states that hope to build a network of routes with President Obama's hometown of Chicago as a hub, are widely believed to be frontrunners for the funding.
Representative John Mica of Florida, the ranking Republican on the House Transportation Committee, said that the two regions were better prepared than anywhere else in the country, and pointed out that both have strong backing from powerful lawmakers. "Let's face it, politics comes into play," he said.
California voters also approved a $9 billion bond issue for high-speed rail last November, providing a financial base that other regions lack. Steve Van Beek, president of the Eno Transportation Foundation, a think tank in Washington, said focusing federal resources outside the Northeast may benefit the region in the long run by expanding the base of political support for high-speed rail, thus making it easier to obtain long-term funding.
I don't want to loot taxpayers from other regions of the couthry anymore, readers -- I don't care what it is!
"That is how the highway system was built," Van Beek said. "Amtrak's problem over the years was that Amtrak was relevant in only a few select corridors, and yet to get an appropriation you need to have a wider constituency."
Yeah, and it was also built for the military-industrial complex and seurity state -- as well as propping up the automobile industry by eliminating the streetcar industry.
Oh, and look where we are years later!
Just like ethanol and every other solution these shitbags offer!
Still, officials in New England said they intend to fight for the stimulus funding. New Hampshire is planning to apply for funds to upgrade the Boston-Montreal corridor as far as Concord to provide commuter rail service, Morgan said.
Don't you love states fighting mongst themselves?
Wish we could get trillions like the war-looters and banks!
And the agency that operates Amtrak service between Boston and Portland will ask for funds to extend the line to Brunswick, Maine, according to Patricia Quinn, its executive director. Planners also want funding to add trains on Amtrak's so-called inland route between Boston and New York via Hartford, connecting Worcester and Framingham directly with New York.
"That's where the people are," said McCluskey, who represents a suburban Hartford district.
If the Obama administration gets its way, the grants awarded this year will not be the last chance for federal money. The administration has said the $8 billion, which will be awarded via competitive grants, is only a "down payment" on a national network, and has requested an additional $5 billion over the next five years. Detailed guidelines for distributing the money will be released in June.
Rob Kulat, a spokesman for the Federal Railroad Administration, said he could not comment on New England's plans but praised efforts in California and the Midwest. He said states that lacked shovel-ready projects would be encouraged to apply for money to conduct planning. "They can apply for a planning grant, which would help them with the environmental reviews or whatever kind of planning they need," he said....
Which will employ what, a few engineers and architects as well as some high-priced consultants?
Here that choo-choo, readers?
Better get off the track, 'murkn!
