[quote=BigGovernmentIsGood]
500,000 existing green energy jobs are at risk. Compare that to the 4,000 employees of Valero and Tesoro, two massively polluting companies who have contributed the most money to try and bamboozle the public into voting for prop 23.[/quote]
BigGubment: Let me preface this statement with a disclaimer that it is NOT pro-Prop 23. However, again you either cite facts incorrectly, or misuse them entirely.
While Valero and Tesoro may only employ 4,000 employees in California, Big Oil employs far more than that number in this state. If Chevron isn’t California’s largest employer, it is close, and maintains two of the largest refineries in this state (Richmond and El Segundo). Add in BP (Carson), Exxon (Torrance) and Conoco (Wilmington) and I’d be willing to be that you’re well in excess of that somewhat suspect 500k employees number that the green industry supposedly employs.
The problem with green/clean energy is that, at present, its nowhere near being able to supplant oil/gas/coal in terms of either volume or pricing.
I’d be curious as to your thoughts regarding the failure of wind energy in Spain (and it proved ruinously expensive for the Spanish government, which subsidized it nearly completely) or the British (who found out far too late that the production and productivity claims offered for wind energy were wildly overstated).
As dirty as oil/gas/coal are, and I won’t dispute that they are, there isn’t, at present, a realistic alternative that can provide this amount of energy at a reasonable price.
