We can't afford the "green jobs" con

April 13, 2011

Obama Creates 10-15 Full Time Jobs at $100,000,000 each

Richard Henry Lee
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Speaking at the signing ceremony of California's Renewable Energy law, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that the Department of Energy would guarantee $1.2 Billion in loans for a solar plant in California. https://lpo.energy.gov/wp-content/uploa ... -Final.pdf The plant would employ 350 people during construction and about 10-15 full time during operation. Assuming the final number of new full time jobs is 12, that works out to $100,000,000 of taxpayer money per full time job.

Sunpower Corporation owns the power plant and their Political Action Committee gave $15,650 to Democrats and $1,000 to Republicans during the 2010 election. Senator Harry Reid received $4,000 of the total. Reid was in a tough re-election bid at the time.

See AT's earlier coverage of California's costly renewable energy law here. http://comments.americanthinker.com/rea ... 02686.html

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