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If I’m ever to get the electric chair I demand it be with a Green Energy Chair, it will guarantee me a long and healthy life. Here is a huge green “success story” from Massachusetts:
“Solar power is a key component of our clean energy future,” said Gov. Deval Patrick this summer, announcing a plan to install large-scale solar photovoltaic power installations throughout the commonwealth.
Just a few weeks later, the governor helped cut the ribbon at the opening of Evergreen Solar’s new plant in Devens, built with $58 million in state funds.
“We love the jobs, and we love that the jobs include manufacturing jobs,” Patrick said. “I look to this facility as a symbol of the kind of industry we want to build, as a symbol of the future.”
But half a year later the forecast for solar’s future – not to mention the governor’s other green initiatives – is looking cloudy with an increasing chance of failure.
Earlier this month, Evergreen Solar shocked everyone by announcing it is cutting up to half of the 800 jobs at the brand-new, taxpayer-bought Devens plant and shipping them to China. Solar panel materials will still be manufactured in Massachusetts (at least for now), but they will be assembled in a locale with much cheaper costs.
Read the rest of the Boston Herald Op-Ed, by Max Shultz, HERE ht/ assman
Wyatt AARP
November 30th, 2009
In a classic sense, a business person ascertains a need and a market for product or service, and then provides said product or service to said market for a profit. This expands the economy and, among other things, provides jobs.
With “green technology,” at present the government really has no workable product or service, nor any idea if there really is a market for these mythical products or services, or if the market will pay the true cost of such product or service. In short, we have a bunch of people with largely no experience or knowledge trying to mandate the existence of an industry without trying to figure out if anyone wants it.
One concept works, the other seems stupid. You figure out which is which.
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matt
November 30th, 2009
Green jobs. Every Phuquing time I hear that overused,meaningless phrase it makes me want to vomit.
Cheryl Prater
November 30th, 2009
Symbol of the future, eh? Looks like the present, only with more FAIL.
cakes
November 30th, 2009
What’s that sound? Why, it’s sound of my teeny tiny violin. Those people get what they deserve. For decades, Mass. has experienced the reality of leftist policies (corruption, fraud, waste, etc.) first hand, yet they continue to vote in lefties. At some point, the sympathy runs out and it’s replaced by disdain. The only people I feel sorry for are those who are ’stuck’ there due to employment, family, etc.
That goes for CA, too. 20 years of b*tchin’ and moanin’ about the cost of living, budget impasses, hoards of new taxes, one of the worst school systems in the country (LA county), blah, blah, blah, but yet, they go all out for the lib (that includes Arnold).
FreeWillie
November 30th, 2009
I want my free carbon credits back! Just when I was getting my BP under 200/150 after a rather trying day, you have to post something about “Cadillac”.
rebecca83095
November 30th, 2009
Seems like Wyatt has said everything that needs to be said — but what in the hell were these two posing for in that picture? BHO looks like he’s gazing at something ‘long and hard’ – and Devens wants to try on that tutu he’s looking at? What prissy men!