I was thrilled to follow the American presidential election this week. A huge turnout, the outpour of emotion … it was quite moving to see all citizens swept up by the energy of political renovation. Speaking of energy, what does the new political scenario mean for the renewable energy sector? Enter Renewable Energy World with an article exactly on this topic. “President-elect Barack Obama and Democrats in the House and Senate will have many items on the clean-energy agenda in 2009. Extending the Production Tax Credit, creating a Renewable Portfolio Standard and passing carbon cap and trade legislation are some of the top goals for lawmakers”, it says.
Bloomberg also has written about the impact of the new presidency on renewables and sounded a positive note, saying that Barack may speed into the conversion to “an economy fueled by renewable energy.” The New York Times’ Green Inc. blog also got positive feedback about Obama from various industry representatives it interviewed for this post. Finally, CNN Money opened an article saying that alternative energy sectors are likely to flourish under Obama, while fossil fuels may be in trouble.
All this could mean that there will be more jobs in the so-called green collar market. So what do you think? Will the renewable energy sector get stronger under Obama and more job opportunities will appear as a consequence?
Now that the anti-science, superstition-based intiative presidency is coming to an end, we need several Manhattan projects to make us great again. First we must provide free advertising-based wireless internet to everyone. Then we must criss-cross the land with high speed rail. These two major public works projects will boost us out of the Grotesque Depression. We must develop microorganisms that may be freely distributed and become commonplace to improve our future. Because bovine flatulence is the major source of greenhouse gases, we must develop microorganisms which can be grow in the home that will provide all of our nutrition. Then we must create microorganisms which turn our sewage and waste into fuel. Since paranoid schizophrenia is the cause of racism, bigotry, homelessness, terrorism, ignorance, exploitation and criminality, we must provide put the appropriate medications, like lithium, in the water supply. We must also allow dangerous individuals who refuse free mental health care to be required to be implanted with drug release devices and microorganisms to improve their mindsets. We should encourage international organizations to do likewise. In order to fund this we must nationalize the entire financial, electrical and transportation system and abolish the silly notion that each industry should be regulated by its peers. Furthermore, as feudalism is the threat to progress everywhere, we must abolish large land holdings by farmers, foresters or religions and instead make all such large landholding part of the forest service so our trees may diminish greenhouse gases. We must abolish executive pay and make sure all employees in a company are all paid equally. We must abolish this exploitative idea of trade and make every home self sufficient through the microorganisms we invent.
Rightfully, the new administration will place a focus on the development of new and sustainable energy technologies that will also fuel a new job sector and, with that, higher employment. However, we also need to look at making the products and services we use everyday more energy efficient. What good is coming up with new ways to power our society if we still hog the same amount of power? And that is only going to happen if government and industry come together and do more beyond mandates. The Technology CEO Council, a group made up of high-tech companies, is trying to get such a dialogue going, and have launched a website to that end at beyondthegreen.org