<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Obama pitches green to 100K]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by wesrolley http://www.grist.org/article/notable-quotable60/ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:28:38 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/notable-quotable60/1 $15 Billion / year

is just 2 NPP's.

Wes Rolley CoChair - EcoAction Committee Green Party US

]]> $15 Billion / year

is just 2 NPP's.

Wes Rolley CoChair - EcoAction Committee Green Party US

]]> Comment #2 by Delay And Deny http://www.grist.org/article/notable-quotable60/ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:31:49 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/notable-quotable60/2 Try Living on $300 A Year


He says he'll spend $15 billion to create 5 million jobs over the decade.

$15,000,000,000
_____   =  $3000 total per job

5,000,000

Over 10 years?    $300 per job.

I guess Obama's math is as bad as his politics...

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He says he'll spend $15 billion to create 5 million jobs over the decade.

$15,000,000,000
_____   =  $3000 total per job

5,000,000

Over 10 years?    $300 per job.

I guess Obama's math is as bad as his politics...

]]> Comment #3 by Zephaniah http://www.grist.org/article/notable-quotable60/ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 10:11:47 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/notable-quotable60/3 Job Creation Illuminated

The federal government has provided $725 billion in energy subsidies (including R&D funding and tax breaks) over the last 50 years. Oil and gas got 60% of that $725 billion. Next in line is coal at 13%, followed by hydropower at 11%. Nukes come in at 9%, while renewables got only 6% -- just one tenth of the largess showed on oil and gas.

Job creation does not mean the federal government just pays salaries; it is done with tax credits, research and training grants, loans and various financial incentives encouraging private industry to provide jobs. The US government has been creating jobs in the fossil fuel industry for decades.

To save the world from terminal warming, now we  need subsidies to encourage solar, wind, geothermal, wave, or algae power instead, a shift of funding. If we count the billions spent to establish bases in oil producing foreign countries, and the fact that with solar and wind power there is no fuel cost, the switch to clean energy will actually save us money.

The cost of doing nothing, the damages to our economy and our resources from continued use of fossil fuels, has doubled in the last two years. We need Obama's energy plan to start yesterday!!

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The federal government has provided $725 billion in energy subsidies (including R&D funding and tax breaks) over the last 50 years. Oil and gas got 60% of that $725 billion. Next in line is coal at 13%, followed by hydropower at 11%. Nukes come in at 9%, while renewables got only 6% -- just one tenth of the largess showed on oil and gas.

Job creation does not mean the federal government just pays salaries; it is done with tax credits, research and training grants, loans and various financial incentives encouraging private industry to provide jobs. The US government has been creating jobs in the fossil fuel industry for decades.

To save the world from terminal warming, now we  need subsidies to encourage solar, wind, geothermal, wave, or algae power instead, a shift of funding. If we count the billions spent to establish bases in oil producing foreign countries, and the fact that with solar and wind power there is no fuel cost, the switch to clean energy will actually save us money.

The cost of doing nothing, the damages to our economy and our resources from continued use of fossil fuels, has doubled in the last two years. We need Obama's energy plan to start yesterday!!

]]> Comment #4 by amazingdrx http://www.grist.org/article/notable-quotable60/ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:32:09 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/notable-quotable60/4 McCain

Got 4500 at his Denver rally?  

15 billion per year is not much, but it may be enough.

The oil industry subsidy alone amounts to 18 billion per year.  Bonuses for wall street execs are triple that every year, including this one.  With the record trillion dollar bailout.

Those jobs stimulate the economy and compound the original investment throughout the economy, generating taxes that pay the original 15 billion per year right back fairly quickly.

Divert the oil industry subsidy to get the 15 billion and no money will need to be borrowed from China to get this green job wave rolling.

Obama will come up with the plan, but we the people better lobby our legislators to pass it.  We have to speak together, even a collective whisper would surpass the shouting of industry lobbyists.  We have the numbers.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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Got 4500 at his Denver rally?  

15 billion per year is not much, but it may be enough.

The oil industry subsidy alone amounts to 18 billion per year.  Bonuses for wall street execs are triple that every year, including this one.  With the record trillion dollar bailout.

Those jobs stimulate the economy and compound the original investment throughout the economy, generating taxes that pay the original 15 billion per year right back fairly quickly.

Divert the oil industry subsidy to get the 15 billion and no money will need to be borrowed from China to get this green job wave rolling.

Obama will come up with the plan, but we the people better lobby our legislators to pass it.  We have to speak together, even a collective whisper would surpass the shouting of industry lobbyists.  We have the numbers.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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