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WASHINGTON — The U.S. is planning to train veterans to become solar panel installers in the next six years, the White House said Thursday.
The jobs training program is among a host of initiatives the White House says will cut carbon dioxide emissions by more than 300 million tons through 2030, plus save billions of dollars on energy bills for homeowners and businesses. It will launch this fall at one or more military bases and train a total of at least 50,000, including veterans.
The Agriculture Department will also spend nearly $70 million to fund 540 solar and renewable energy projects, focused on rural and farming areas. And the Energy Department will propose stricter efficiency standards for commercial air conditioners, a move the department said could cut emissions more than any other efficiency standard it has issued to date.
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:applaud:applaud I can not say how much I love this program! Job training, new jobs, and green energy! :mrgreen: This is a great program, and I cannot think why anyone ccouldbe against this!
Hooray green jobs! $70,000,000 + the undisclosed amount it's going to cost to train these people for 6 years, added to the almost $18,000,000,000,000!
:applaud :applaud Great program indeed! :mrgreen: Let's have more!
Federal coal subsidies are forms of financial assistance paid by federal taxpayers to the coal and power industry. Such subsidies include direct spending, tax breaks and exemptions, low-interest loans, loan guarantees, loan forgiveness, grants, lost government revenue such as discounted royalty fees to mine federal lands, and federally-subsidized external costs, such as health care expenses and environmental clean-up due to the negative effects of coal use. External costs of coal include the loss or degradation of valuable ecosystems and community health.
According to research by GigaOm analyst Adam Lesser, buried in a 2011 report from the International Energy Agency is the fact that fossil fuels currently receive subsidies via "at least 250 mechanisms."[1]
In June 2010, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said $557 billion was spent to subsidize fossil fuels globally in 2008, compared to $43 billion in support of renewable energy. In a July 2011 EIA report on federal fossil fuel subsidies, coal was estimated to have tax expenditures (provisions in the federal tax code that reduce the tax liability of firms) with an estimated value of $561 million in FY 2010, down from $3.3 billion in FY 2007.[2]
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:applaud:applaud I can not say how much I love this program! Job training, new jobs, and green energy! :mrgreen: This is a great program, and I cannot think why anyone ccouldbe against this!
If the government is going to pay for it, I'd much rather they direct our tax dollars to renewable energy than subsidizing the coal industry.
If the government is going to enslave peop-
If the government is going to enslave people I'd much rather they enslave one group over the other.
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:applaud:applaud I can not say how much I love this program! Job training, new jobs, and green energy! :mrgreen: This is a great program, and I cannot think why anyone ccouldbe against this!
Does the solar panel industry need 50,000 more installers? Did anybody check?
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I was unaware that the 13th Amendment had been repealed. You should start a new thread on that one here in the Breaking News section of the forums. The return of slavery to the United States is quite the news item.
You didn't like that? I suppose it was rather extreme.
If the government is going to spy on private citizens, I'd rather they spy on people I don't like instead of me.
If the government is going to go to war, I'd rather they go to war with Israel instead of Iraq.
If the government is going to regulate content on the airwaves, I'd rather they censor religion instead of cuss words.
If the government is going to let the TSA run amok, I'd rather go through that x-ray thing like on Total Recall than get patted down. LOL
Does the solar panel industry need 50,000 more installers? Did anybody check?
You have to ask how many IBEW electricians are sitting at home today waiting for a call from their union local that there's a job available ?
Usually when you finish one project you're waiting weeks or even months for a new project to start up.
That doesn't answer the question. Does the solar panel industry need 50,000 more installers?
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:applaud:applaud I can not say how much I love this program! Job training, new jobs, and green energy! :mrgreen: This is a great program, and I cannot think why anyone ccouldbe against this!
I don't think so.
What?You forgot "filling potholes" and "building community libraries." I associate all of these things together with a totalitarian police state.
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:applaud:applaud I can not say how much I love this program! Job training, new jobs, and green energy! :mrgreen: This is a great program, and I cannot think why anyone ccouldbe against this!
If successfully executed this is of course a positive, but is the upgrading of the electrical grid not a higher priority?
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