Romney distorts truth on green jobs.

[Old Rocks]

I worked at a nuclear power plant for 10 years before I retired. Overall opinion of everybody I knew there that was really in the know when it came to making electricity is that it costs much more to make electricity with wind powered equipment than any other way you could make electricity.

RealClearEnergy - Levelized Costs of New Electric Generation

 

[bripat9643]

I worked at a nuclear power plant for 10 years before I retired. Overall opinion of everybody I knew there that was really in the know when it came to making electricity is that it costs much more to make electricity with wind powered equipment than any other way you could make electricity.

RealClearEnergy - Levelized Costs of New Electric Generation

We know EPA publishes blatant lies about the dangers of Mercury in coal, so why should we believe what this government agency says about the cost of coal and the cost of green energy?

 

[GWV5903]

Romney distorts truth on green jobs - CNN.com

YOU KIDDING! Romney did not tell the truth....the moral man is lowering himself again? Wow!

Van Jones is your source...

 

[buckeye45_73]

wow this a major fail thread. Like others have said, the OP takes Van Jones as a credible source.......you cant say anything that the OP is a moron

 

[Chris]

"This is a man without a core, a man without substance, a man that will say anything to become president of the United States."

Republican Rudy Giuliani on Romney

 

[freedombecki]

Solyndra, Solyndra. Geez. Half a billion, just like Big Bird. And you leave out the really costly stuff like Nuclear Power. Like who will insure a nuclear power plant? Taxpayers are insurers of last resort. Where's the magic of the free market if we have a Fukishima like disaster here?

Oil. If you add up what is does to the environment (like the latest gulf disaster) and what it does to peoples health, and the cost of having our military protect oil companies so they sell their product on the open market, sorry fellow Americans, no discount at the pump even if you're a gulf war veteran that helped make the world safe for oil companies profits. And if you're a little irritated about the tax breaks they get, why then you're a marxist or liberal or something.
Same for coal, nasty unhealthy stuff, but its health and environmental costs are socialized by the taxpayer so there. Blow off mountain tops because it's easier and more profitable to get at the coal that way even if that coal is headed for India for Coal companies profit, and if you want them to pay more taxes? Well, you're a jealous freeloading chisler. God don't really care about his mountains. Making money above all other things, that's what he/she? really likes to see.

You obviously haven't studied wind power or solar power.

Wind power is decimating raptor populations on priairie lands and at sea. The trouble with that is that the turbines are smack dab in the middle of migratory paths of hundreds of migrating species worldwide. Whether it's the windfarm at Copenhagen and other North Sea/Baltic area or the Oklahoma panhandle region, you're taking out a lot of species.

Solar panels take as much fossil fuel generation to make as they put out in a year.

Don't you lecture us about how bad we are for using what we have.

Human lifespan since electricity jumped from an average of 40 years to 75-80 years these days, and it's going up. Fossil fuels have done more good than bad, and you couldn't make these other things into useful objects if you didn't have fossil fuels giving industrial power into their creation.

Green businesses today do not provide light well enough, do not utilize energy efficiently and are expensive.

And politicians decided foolishly that they could stimulate business with the failed businesses already out there now. It just doesn't make good sense.

 

[whitehall]

What the hell is the truth about "green jobs"? As far as I can determine green jobs are standard smokestack factory jobs that sometimes use toxic substances harmful to the environment to make so-called "green" products. What else is there?

 

[Oldstyle]

Romney distorts truth on green jobs - CNN.com

YOU KIDDING! Romney did not tell the truth....the moral man is lowering himself again? Wow!

The one who must be kidding is you, Jim. You just provided an article written by Van Jones. That would be the Van Jones who was dropped from the Obama Cabinet because he was espousing policy that was too far left for the most far left Administration since FDR?

Gee, if Van Jones says Mitt Romney is lying than he MUST be...right? God, knows that Van Jones isn't partisan in his politics!!! (eye-roll)

 

[BlindBoo]

I remember when Carter told Reagan that some day the American economy would be destroyed by the $5 gallon. Reagan crushed carter. Massive oil money was deployed to making alternative energy seem silly. Reagan helped big oil destroy competition in the energy market. Reagan was also asked to price the cost of stabilizing the middle east into the price of a barrel so that Americans and the market would see the true cost of oil. But as usual, we subsidized John Galt by giving him a free ride on the Pentagon's middle east budget, and remained hush, hush. Reagan and his supporters worried that being honest about the true cost of oil would send the market a signal to shift investments away from the black gold which was so crucial to his donor base. Reagan and big oil won, of course. The fact that Obama got caught trying to pump money into a failed solar company is hilarious, if only because it's 30 years too late for transitioning to a petrol-scarce world. The question is not only "why did Obama subvert process and waste taxpayer funds"; it should be "why is nobody being held accountable for ignoring the very clear warnings in the 70s?" Big oil captured the Republican party in the 70s, and with that they captured Washington and fixed the energy market and dug America's grave. Rather than spending the last 30 years diversifying our energy basket through alternative energy, conservation, more enlightened urbanization, and less petrol-intensive transportation/production we built hummers and maximized energy use through suburban sprawl.

We swallowed poison in 1980 and now we're re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Yeah but.... we felt good about ourselves again. We're Number 1, We're Number 1, We're Number 1, We're Number 1, We're Number 1,.......(sic)

 

[PoliticalChic]

Solyndra, Solyndra. Geez. Half a billion, just like Big Bird. And you leave out the really costly stuff like Nuclear Power. Like who will insure a nuclear power plant? Taxpayers are insurers of last resort. Where's the magic of the free market if we have a Fukishima like disaster here?

Oil. If you add up what is does to the environment (like the latest gulf disaster) and what it does to peoples health, and the cost of having our military protect oil companies so they sell their product on the open market, sorry fellow Americans, no discount at the pump even if you're a gulf war veteran that helped make the world safe for oil companies profits. And if you're a little irritated about the tax breaks they get, why then you're a marxist or liberal or something.
Same for coal, nasty unhealthy stuff, but its health and environmental costs are socialized by the taxpayer so there. Blow off mountain tops because it's easier and more profitable to get at the coal that way even if that coal is headed for India for Coal companies profit, and if you want them to pay more taxes? Well, you're a jealous freeloading chisler. God don't really care about his mountains. Making money above all other things, that's what he/she? really likes to see.

Wait.....

....wasn't this your 7th grade term paper in government school???

 

[Politico]

What green jobs?

 

[Claudette]

What green jobs?

You know. The ones they keep trying to create ala Solyndra and all those other solar panel places that are going belly up. The only thing they are creating is ways to waste our tax dollars.

As for wind. T. Boone Pickens spent millions of HIS OWN MONEY to find out that it just ain't viable.

 

[FJO]

President Obama is Don Quixote of the twenty-first century.
Van Jones is his Sancho Panza.

http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=...xzUO6nGNCDyAGpyICYBA&ved=0CD8Q9QEwBA&dur=3782

 

[CMike]

The problem is that the liberals refuse to accept the truth.

 

[HUGGY]

Romney distorts truth on green jobs - CNN.com

YOU KIDDING! Romney did not tell the truth....the moral man is lowering himself again? Wow!

Lying liars lie.

 

[Lovebears65]

Solyndra if anyone want to talk failure here is 500B one

 

[Liberal]

teh thruth is the green jobs are not working and now our trade job market is hurting.

I work in the industry.

This is blatantly wrong, our fastest growing sector year over year is "green" jobs. Not a single sign of slowing, in fact two of the companies just began new designs.

I will say that the jobs are not here in the US though, most of them were moved to Mexico, India or China. Interestingly, I had an in at the CEO level of one of the companies, he told me that China and Mexico sent government representatives directly to him courting his business and offering him incentives to move the manufacturing to their country, Mexico offered him free production space, machines and a fully trained workforce.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Romney distorts truth on green jobs.

It's called.....​

.....the Gish Gallop.

"To wit, when you spew an enormous volume of outright lies, your opponent becomes incapable of countering them all."​

​

 

[eflatminor]

Van Jones? Seriously?

Still searching for lie, are ya? And all you come up with is a "distortion"...according to Van Jones!

Priceless.

 

[Caroljo]

And how many bankruptcies have happened since Solyndra?
Another one today (i started a post about it, but seems nobody wants to talk about it! Lol!)


House Republicans are pressing the Obama administration for more information about a solar-panel company that received a $400 million loan guarantee, then went bankrupt and is now the focus of a criminal investigation.

Solyndra, the sequel? Bankrupt solar firm, DOE facing scrutiny over panel problems | Fox News