From caver456 at gmail.com  Fri Jul 25 09:46:53 2008
From: caver456 at gmail.com (Tom Grundy)
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:46:53 -0700
Subject: [Energy] great green jobs blurb from Grist
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online at http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/7/23/1261/89277?source=dailyKnocking
down the energy jobs
myth<http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/7/23/1261/89277> It's
the fossil fuel crowd that's against American jobs Posted by David
Roberts<http://gristmill.grist.org/user/David%20Roberts>at 1:01 PM on
23 Jul 2008
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Reading around on reactions to the latest oil shale hubbub, I keep seeing
conservatives saying that greens against dirty energy development are
opposing "American jobs."

It's important that everyone involved in fighting oil shale -- and other
drill-and-burn energy policies -- understand something simple: the U.S.
energy sector has very low "labor intensity." That is to say, fossil fuel
exploration, drilling, and refinement is capital-intensive and
energy-intensive, but it doesn't create many jobs.

*A dollar spent on efficiency or renewables creates more jobs than a dollar
spent on fossil fuel development.*

So it's the fossil crowd that opposes American jobs. If they wanted to
create jobs, they'd support putting people to work transitioning the U.S.
economy away from fossil fuels.

(See "Energy Efficiency and Job Creation<http://www.aceee.org/pubs/ed922.htm>"
by Geller, DiCicco, and Laitner, and "Putting Renewables To Work: How Many
Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry
Generate?<http://socrates.berkeley.edu/%7Erael/renewables.jobs.pdf>"
[PDF] by Kammen, Kapadia, and Fripp.)
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