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The Spectacle Blog
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis writes in the Huffington Post that:
“No country has more successful companies, inventors, and entrepreneurs. So when the president says that 80 percent of America’s electricity will come from clean sources by 2035, I know we will meet that goal.
I believe it because I’ve seen the promise of clean energy technology, and I’ve seen the impact of green jobs. Take Kwanasia Smith, a young woman in Oakland, CA. Thanks to the Recovery Act, she attended a summer jobs program studying solar paneling, mounting, and wiring.”
Ummmm. What?
If I follow the administration’s rhetoric since SOTU, some combination of summer internships and pretending the Great Windmill Race is a moon-shot will make us competitive in the uneconomic and innovative in the old, which isn’t like that energy of today which is from yesterday but is instead of tomorrow. If tomorrow is the 1890s.
Now if you’ll excuse me I’ve just pulled up to the BP station so they can fill ‘er up with solar.
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Richard Baker| 1.27.11 @ 11:41AM
If windmills were the solution then Holland wouldn't need any other source of energy, right? Don Quixote, have Sancho call your office.
Pete| 1.27.11 @ 12:09PM
As if little Kwanasia weren't already a Dem voter for life, our rulers decided to steal and redistribute some taxpayer money just to make sure. Does anyone believe that this "program" didn't have a healthy dose of "climate change" indoctrination in addition to whatever quasi-practical things it purported to teach?
Too Many Tims| 1.27.11 @ 12:13PM
I'm waiting for high speed rail that is solar powered. Don't book any trips at night.
Eric Cartman| 1.27.11 @ 12:13PM
Well I'll go her one better:
I believe alternative energy because I've seen the impact of green jobs. Take Kwambi Muhammad of Detroit. He was a bus driver, driving a dirty, smoke-belching city bus, until he looked down one day and saw a bag of crack dropped by some passenger. He picked up this natural, organic product, rubbed it on his gums and immediately had an idea: Take the crack, sell it, buy more crack and sell it. Now, instead of driving a dirty bus, Kwambi drives an efficient BMW. He also moves much faster and eats much less, reducing the need to grow food or clear old growth forest for cow production. Kwambi Muhammad, another success story of eco-imagination!
David T| 1.27.11 @ 12:29PM
Mr. Horner--You, sir, lack imagination. I have seen the future, and it works.
Lincoln Steffens
Frisbee| 1.27.11 @ 1:22PM
The future, like the 21st century? That was the future in Clinton's speech. Obama should have had his arithmetic checked so that the plagiarism wasn't so obvious.
Frisbee| 1.27.11 @ 1:19PM
2035? And in the sotu Obama mentioned his 5 year plan for a spending freeze. What is it with "5 years". Wasn't the obsession with 5 year plans a Soviet thing?
Frisbee| 1.27.11 @ 1:20PM
And what's with the "no country has more..." rhetoric. Does this mean that apologizing is out and American exceptionalism is in?
J.C.Eaton| 1.27.11 @ 7:43PM
No Fris, he means "you have all you need so shut the hell up and give your government the rest."
Dixie Pixie| 1.27.11 @ 1:48PM
Obama says he is going to solve the nations problems with technological innovation.
Does Obama even know the Democratic Party and the far Left has been technophobic for generations.
It is a article of faith that "Technological Innovation" will always run amok and doom humanity to become machine slaves.
An existence far more horrible than being a slave to a socialist bureaucracy.
The Liberals have been using "Green" to try repealing the Industrial Revolution for years.
The Greens have tried to kill any technological advancement from nuclear power to the internal combustion engines.
Now the Greens are going to be in charge of technological innovation?
Expecting the Liberals to reverse course 180 degrees and suddenly become technophilic is ridiculous.
It is totally ridiculous to expect 80% of all energy be "Green Energy".
Does Obama really think all cars can be powered by all the colors of the wind?
Jeff| 1.27.11 @ 3:52PM
Chris,
If we took everyone unemployed (about 15% of workers) and magically made them qualifed solar panel installers tommorrow and then had them work fulltime (40 hrs/wk) installing panels on the other 85% of Americas houses then in about 3 months every house in America would have panels and we would be back to 15% out of work ...
Green jobs = no jobs that last longer than a year ...