RICHARD BRANSON: Moving America’s coal miners into clean energy jobs would be good for the world

Yahoo! Finance ^ | July 17, 2017 | Julia La Roche

[faucetman]

Oh, STFU Branson, you pompous arse.

[chimera]

A good number, if not most, of the ruinous (renewable) energy “jobs” are pretty crummy. It takes maybe 30 or 40 people to run a wind farm or solar array. Even those jobs are pretty lousy, riding around in pickup trucks cleaning solar panels, or climbing 300 foot tall towers that may burst into flames if the generator or power train catches fire. A lot of the other “hundreds of thousands” of jobs are salesmen, often door-to-door types, trying to convince elderly retirees to part with their nest eggs because they can get a 50% rebates on their taxes to pay for half of their PV or solar thermal system, and maybe realize a 20 or 30 year payback period, by which time the senior citizens will be dead.

[eyeamok]

As a result, American cities and companies will have to come forward and step into the breach where the government is lacking, he added..

I expect he will soon announce All virgin Airlines planes will be Solar or Electric powered right??

Frikkin idiots.

[liberalh8ter]

Meanwhile, he's making a fortune off the emissions his Virgin planes are spewing throughout the globe. Typical elitist.

[MayflowerMadam]

This Brit telling America what WE should do that would be good for the world. America is, and always has been, the country that’s saved most of the world on many levels. STFU, Branson.