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$200 million green-tech subsidy results in -100 jobs
Hot Air ^ | 10/4/11 | Ed Morrissey
$200 million green-tech subsidy results in -100 jobs « Hot Air
What happens when job-stimulus funds get spent on a company that reduces its workforce? It looks like Barack Obama and Energy Secretary Stephen Chu made another “bad bet” in 2009, sinking $200 million into the non-profit National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. NREL isn’t going under, but it’s cutting back staff after getting a big taxpayer subsidy from Porkulus:
President Barack Obama’s “green jobs” initiatives suffered another major blow late Monday, as the nonprofit National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, Colorado, announced a plan to lay off roughly 10 percent of its staff through a voluntary buy-out plan.
According to the Denver Post, the lab plans to eliminate between 100 and 150 of its 1,350 jobs. The Obama administration supported the NREL in 2009 with roughly $200 million in stimulus grants. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu visited Golden in May 2009 to promote the NREL as a beneficiary of those funds.
Are you getting the impression that a visit from Obama or Chu might be the kiss of death for green-tech companies? Obama shows up to promote Solyndra and the company sinks into bankruptcy, taking over a half-billion taxpayer dollars with it. Chu personally delivers the jobs-stimulus check to NREL, which then starts trimming jobs.
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I've come to the conclusion that most of green energy when we try to go large scale just isn't going to be economic within our market place. I'm not saying that at a microscale that solar and wind don't have a place at the table, but never as the main energy source. The only reason that China has done what it does is that the "commie" one system party pretty much made it law to force the energy corpartions to buy the energy from the "green energy" producers. No matter the cost, either. Must be nice having the power to screw over your people.
Hot Air ^ | 10/4/11 | Ed Morrissey
$200 million green-tech subsidy results in -100 jobs « Hot Air
What happens when job-stimulus funds get spent on a company that reduces its workforce? It looks like Barack Obama and Energy Secretary Stephen Chu made another “bad bet” in 2009, sinking $200 million into the non-profit National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. NREL isn’t going under, but it’s cutting back staff after getting a big taxpayer subsidy from Porkulus:
President Barack Obama’s “green jobs” initiatives suffered another major blow late Monday, as the nonprofit National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, Colorado, announced a plan to lay off roughly 10 percent of its staff through a voluntary buy-out plan.
According to the Denver Post, the lab plans to eliminate between 100 and 150 of its 1,350 jobs. The Obama administration supported the NREL in 2009 with roughly $200 million in stimulus grants. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu visited Golden in May 2009 to promote the NREL as a beneficiary of those funds.
Are you getting the impression that a visit from Obama or Chu might be the kiss of death for green-tech companies? Obama shows up to promote Solyndra and the company sinks into bankruptcy, taking over a half-billion taxpayer dollars with it. Chu personally delivers the jobs-stimulus check to NREL, which then starts trimming jobs.
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I've come to the conclusion that most of green energy when we try to go large scale just isn't going to be economic within our market place. I'm not saying that at a microscale that solar and wind don't have a place at the table, but never as the main energy source. The only reason that China has done what it does is that the "commie" one system party pretty much made it law to force the energy corpartions to buy the energy from the "green energy" producers. No matter the cost, either. Must be nice having the power to screw over your people.
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