And the why, reagan capitalist and especially the special interests who've been blocking growth in for some forty years, them highly touted very wealthy 'job creators', not the real ones of small businesses, here aren't and haven't been investing in economic growth, i.e. that 'trickle down'!
October 6, 2012 - A wind turbine maker in Grand Forks, North Dakota, recently announced it would eliminate 300 jobs in that city due to flat demand for wind power projects in the United States. Just days after announcing it would hand out 300 pink slips, LM Wind Power announced it is creating 300 new jobs in Brazil – where demand for wind energy is skyrocketing.
I also recently wrote about other alternative energy programs that are either dying or on life support. One example is Xcel Energy’s attempt (recently thwarted) to end its popular solar power program, and another is Silicon Energy, a solar panel maker in northern Minnesota that is on the verge of bankruptcy just one year after starting up.
Of course, Conservative politicians have been having a hay-day gloating over the demise of such famous failures as Solyndra, Fisker, Tesla and Ener1, hanging these examples like stones of shame around the neck of President Obama.
So both wind and solar continue to struggle for market share under the domestic formula for energy policy while the U.S. continues to drill for oil, frack for gas and strip mine for coal, seemingly determined to remain mired in the past with environmentally dirty and nonrenewable fossil fuels.
Not so in Brazil – here is a country that actually learned something from the oil crisis of the 1970s. At that time, Brazil invested heavily into biofuels and hydroelectricity. But recent droughts in Brazil have had a devastating effect on its hydro-plants ability to generate power – and so the Brazilians moved aggressively again, spending $6 billion to create two gigawatts of energy produced by wind. read more>>>
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