Comments on: Senators Boxer, Kerry Introduce a Cap-and-Trade Energy Tax http://www.globalwarming.org/2009/10/01/senators-boxer-kerry-introduce-a-cap-and-trade-energy-tax/ Climate Change News & Analysis Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:44:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Larry Jones, Electrihttp://www.globalwarming.org/2009/10/01/senators-boxer-kerry-introduce-a-cap-and-trade-energy-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-29335 Larry Jones, Electri Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:13:36 +0000 http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=4792#comment-29335 I have heard numbers as high as five million new green jobs, jobs that are well paying, can't be outsourced to other countries, etc. Electric power generation is a zero sum game with sales basically flat. Generating a green kw only replaces another fuel source kw. Creating a green energy job would either ballon cost or reduce a job in another fuel source. Of course that is not creating any net new jobs. I have heard numbers as high as five million new green jobs, jobs that are well paying, can't be outsourced to other countries, etc. Electric power generation is a zero sum game with sales basically flat. Generating a green kw only replaces another fuel source kw. Creating a green energy job would either ballon cost or reduce a job in another fuel source. Of course that is not creating any net new jobs.

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