<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Where does McCain get his claim that nuclear will create 700,000 jobs?]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Russ http://www.grist.org/article/job-mentality/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:25:58 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/job-mentality/1 Yup

* Inducing an additional 218,000 to 242,000 jobs in the non-nuclear industries throughout the country.

It's trickle-down everywhere you look with these people.

Today I got an e-mail announcing FOE's new anti-nuke campaign, focusing on the obscene loan guarantees, which they refer to as a "preemptive bailout" of this doddering, unviable, welfare-guzzling industry.

Good stuff.

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* Inducing an additional 218,000 to 242,000 jobs in the non-nuclear industries throughout the country.

It's trickle-down everywhere you look with these people.

Today I got an e-mail announcing FOE's new anti-nuke campaign, focusing on the obscene loan guarantees, which they refer to as a "preemptive bailout" of this doddering, unviable, welfare-guzzling industry.

Good stuff.

]]> Comment #2 by Delay And Deny http://www.grist.org/article/job-mentality/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:12:05 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/job-mentality/2 And Barry Ethanol?

What about those ethanol subsidies lobbies that are funding the Obama candidacy?

What about land prices being driven up by agriwaste?

What about not utilizing more efficient crops such as sugar beets?

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What about those ethanol subsidies lobbies that are funding the Obama candidacy?

What about land prices being driven up by agriwaste?

What about not utilizing more efficient crops such as sugar beets?

]]> Comment #3 by David Bradish http://www.grist.org/article/job-mentality/ Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:07:29 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/job-mentality/3 I was going to give...

you props for doing the research but then your second to last sentence in the piece ruined it.

R&E will be creating millions of jobs for decades to come no matter what governments do, whereas nuclear will do the same if and only if it receives massive corporate welfare.

Did you somehow forget that the wind industry lives or dies by the PTC? If growth in renewables are independent from government incentives (like you said), then why does AWEA still say they need the PTC? (BTW, I have no problem that the wind industry receives the PTC.)

The impact of not receiving the PTC is modeled on page 4 in this presentation prepared for AWEA (pdf). Here's the main point:

The Federal tax credit expiration could result in ~$19 billion of lost investment and ~116,000 of lost employment.

Ouch. Also, if you look at the job numbers closely, the 116,000 includes direct, indirect and induced jobs. Looks like the nuclear industry isn't the only industry who "inflates" their numbers.

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you props for doing the research but then your second to last sentence in the piece ruined it.

R&E will be creating millions of jobs for decades to come no matter what governments do, whereas nuclear will do the same if and only if it receives massive corporate welfare.

Did you somehow forget that the wind industry lives or dies by the PTC? If growth in renewables are independent from government incentives (like you said), then why does AWEA still say they need the PTC? (BTW, I have no problem that the wind industry receives the PTC.)

The impact of not receiving the PTC is modeled on page 4 in this presentation prepared for AWEA (pdf). Here's the main point:

The Federal tax credit expiration could result in ~$19 billion of lost investment and ~116,000 of lost employment.

Ouch. Also, if you look at the job numbers closely, the 116,000 includes direct, indirect and induced jobs. Looks like the nuclear industry isn't the only industry who "inflates" their numbers.

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