Create 5 Million New Green Jobs
- Invest in our Next Generation Innovators and Job Creators:
Obama will create an Advanced Manufacturing Fund to identify and invest in the most compelling advanced manufacturing strategies. The Fund will have a peer-review selection and award process based on the Michigan 21st Century Jobs Fund, a state-level initiative that has awarded over $125 million to Michigan businesses with the most innovative proposals to create new products and new jobs in the state.
- Double Funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership:
The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) works with manufacturers across the country to improve efficiency, implement new technology and strengthen company growth. This highly-successful program has engaged in more than 350,000 projects across the country and in 2006 alone, helped create and protect over 50,000 jobs. But despite this success, funding for MEP has been slashed by the Bush administration. Barack Obama will double funding for the MEP so its training centers can continue to bolster the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturers.
- Invest In A Clean Energy Economy And Create 5 Million New Green Jobs:
Obama will invest $150 billion over 10 years to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug-in hybrids, promote development of commercial scale renewable energy, invest in low emissions coal plants, and begin transition to a new digital electricity grid. The plan will also invest in America's highly-skilled manufacturing workforce and manufacturing centers to ensure that American workers have the skills and tools they need to pioneer the first wave of green technologies that will be in high demand throughout the world.
- Create New Job Training Programs for Clean Technologies:
The Obama plan will increase funding for federal workforce training programs and direct these programs to incorporate green technologies training, such as advanced manufacturing and weatherization training, into their efforts to help Americans find and retain stable, high-paying jobs. Obama will also create an energy-focused youth jobs program to invest in disconnected and disadvantaged youth.
- Boost the Renewable Energy Sector and Create New Jobs:
The Obama plan will create new federal policies, and expand existing ones, that have been proven to create new American jobs. Obama will create a federal Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) that will require 25 percent of American electricity be derived from renewable sources by 2025, which has the potential to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs on its own. Obama will also extend the Production Tax Credit, a credit used successfully by American farmers and investors to increase renewable energy production and create new local jobs.
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Are you all stupid enough to believe that McCain didn't support "green" energy too? Because he did. He just supported other energy too (nuclear, coal, natural gas, AMERICAN oil). he could have brought all the jobs to the table that Obama promised, and more. Also, raising taxes on the middle class (it WILL happen, Obama voted to raise taxes $42,000 a year while in the senate) is going to make our economy worse. It's been proved time and time again, the only way to rebound from a economic crisis is increased consumer spending, which will NOT happen when consumers (which, a sad truth, is mostly the upper class, but also heavily the middle class) are getting their heads taxed off...
I would have to question, who would be paying for these new jobs and why the free market is not able to promote a business with sound technology. I understand the need for us (The U. S.) to move away from oil and oil products, but I have ask, shouldn't the marketplace decide which technologies are viable? My other question is what are we to do until this technology or technologies get to the marketplace? This is complex and not easily answered, but we need to work this problem through and not in 10 or so years.
The 'Free Market' is not free or unbiased. RE is disruptive tech and from every direction has been stopped by oil, utilities, gov policies, ect.
The facts are a solar thermal generator is just a 5hp steam engine, more simple that an ICE, with a 100sq' collector. These can supply installed power for under $4,000/kw easily and supply needed heat, hot water too. A biomass gasifier fed wood pellets, wood chips, ect backup for when the sun don't shine could be used. Coal plants cost that much to build and you still have to pay for the coal which is going up in price a lot.
A windgenerator costs little in materials, I build them for $300 in parts added to a solar thermal generator and an eff house, charge my EV one could get a check back from the utility instead of paying them.
Built in quantity a 3kw solar thermal unit should cost under $3k to produce and a 2kw windgen about $1.5k.
Those are basic facts. Now why haven't they been produced? Because they take power from the big industries and gives it to people.
If I can get start up funding, I can do these as anyone fairly smart can as old tech, mostly forgotten. They are really simple things.
If Obama, Congress passes this I and many more will get into the business making many, many jobs by summer.
McCain has been vague and says drill, baby, drill which only enriches our enemies and makes the US, it's people poor and in oil wars as we are in now. Few know it but the CIA, NeoCons that Iraq probably holds the largest sweet crude oil supply left, the kind our refineries use.
If all the costs were in coal, oil they cause, instead of in my income tax, health, RE would be much cheaper than oil, coal. So get rid of their subsidies, tax them for indirect costs and a real free market would be and RE is the low cost leader.
I live in the best fishing in the US in Fla, both fresh and salt and can only eat them 1/week because of mercury poisoning from coal power plants. Every major coal plant puts out a dirty bombs worth of radioactive material every day!! Google Radioactive Coal Emissions for a real eye opener.
I use to like McCain 2000, before he became a Bush clone. His massive lies in his campaign have shown he has no honor left. Sad.
jerryd
Has it ever been substantiated that the Michigan 21st Century Jobs Fund works? If so show me.