Green cars - and green jobs - have potential to turn economy around
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I assume most of us can agree that green cars do their part to save the environment (although declaring which technologies are best is opening a can of worms I don't want to open up right now). What's nice to see is a new general agreement being formed in America (and probably the world) that says that green jobs are really the answer when it comes to saving the economy. Case in point here is an article in The Boston Globe that draws from a variety of sources to find predictions ranging from 2.5 million to five million new jobs resulting from anywhere from $150 billion to $500 billion worth of investments in moving to a cleaner, more efficient economy. The article doesn't specifically mention cleaner cars, but we know they're part of the picture, as are public transportation improvements and renewable energy and bioenergy updates.
If you watched the presidential candidate debates this fall, then you heard both Barack Obama and John McCain hold up green jobs as a way to turn the economy around. But now we are hearing the rumblings of a new stimulus package. One of the people interviewed for the Boston Globe story said that, "What we ought to be doing is rethinking regulating the financial market to channel credit into useful investments instead of useless, destructive speculations. Putting money into green jobs is useful in many ways." I'd say using less gasoline and boosting the job market counts as two of those ways, no?
[Source: The Boston Globe]
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jcwinnie 2:20PM (10/21/2008)
But, Seb, you gotta greed job, green washing the dominant ICE paradigm.
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Throwback 3:41PM (10/21/2008)
"What we ought to be doing is rethinking regulating the financial market to channel credit into useful investments instead of useless, destructive speculations. Putting money into green jobs is useful in many ways."
I love the term "useful investments", who decides what is useful? The bank bail out is bad enough now some want the government to telling people how to invest their own money?
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gorr 5:22PM (10/21/2008)
This site is a ranting one, nearly just politic subject matter find his way to an article. As an example, take the case of the poor innocent to good to be true guy that invented a machine to make electricity with water: Genepax. Just one article about it, that was
just saying that that guy say that his machine make electricity with water ??? No one can confirm if it's real or a joke??? what a journalistic informative site it is here??? I want that a person from this site go in japan to see if the genepax machine is working as said. It take 10 minutes for a normal person equipped with a normal brain to see and confirm if the machine is real or a hoax.
then if it's real, then fing investors, administrators, enginneers and help start this compagny and bring a car with this electrical
generator of a new kind in a showroom near my town. Do that as a service to a regular reader.
But seriously, do you just imagine for a minute how stupid we
will appear if that machine will be proved real and appear on the market in the futur? especially the people concerned here because theoritically IT'S THE THING WE ARE LOOKING FOR OFFICIALLY' A GREEN CAR. But i noticed that the spirit is very low here and elsewhere, more people are afraid of the green car then interrested in the green car. Especially the numerous opposant of hydrogen and green algae fuel. It's not that they believe their own opinion, it's that they want low energy in the brain and cease any dreams for real. They are living dead like the one in the film ' the night of the living dead' It was maybe a prophetic film made by a lucid artist because many here have a zombie attitude: eating slowly the last remaining dreamer to start the longest night their will be.
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color blind 9:54AM (10/22/2008)
So what exactly is a green job? I sit at a desk barely breathing for 8 hours, so is that a green job? It is amazing what people will buy into.
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