Posted by
BLOGASSAULT on Friday, February 26, 2010 11:43:21 AM
Interesting article from the Washington Post Opinion column today.
Sunil Sharan gives some examples of how the green jobs push by Obama is in doubt because of how some of the stimulus monies are being spent.
Let's consider just one clean-energy sector, the smart grid, for its job-creation potential. The Obama administration allocated a little more than $4 billion in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to the smart grid, an unprecedented amount for a hitherto-neglected but critical piece of our national infrastructure. Much of this is to be spent installing close to 20 million "smart meters" over the next five years. Smart meters are digital versions of the spinning electric meters that are omnipresent nationwide. Whereas spinning meters have changed little in more than a century and must be read by workers, smart meters automatically transmit electricity consumption data to a utility.
Well, that is certainly not jobs "saved or created". That is more like jobs "lost or eliminated".