A Command 'n' Control economy failure? Who could have seen that coming?
Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/18/2010 6:07:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
When heating oil spiked in 2008, roughly 500 Mainers took a state housing authority course to become weatherization technicians. Another 200 became certified energy auditors.
Today, the majority of those trainees are doing other jobs or are out of work.
"It should be a cautionary tale," said Curry Caputo, president of the Maine Association of Building Efficiency Professionals.
Maine won't need hundreds of new insulation techs or auditors in the near future, Caputo said, despite the sense that a flood of federal stimulus money and the state's goal of weatherizing all homes will create a wave of new, green jobs.
"The estimates are inflated," he said. "There's no doubt about that."
A new report by the Maine Department of Labor says the reality is more complicated. It's not possible now for the state to develop a detailed plan for green work force development, the department has concluded. Researchers can't even confirm the number of green jobs in Maine today.
"It's a moving target," said John Dorrer, director of the state's Center for Workforce Research and Information.
Labor department researchers concluded the state will only need another 55 full-time energy auditors and 118 more weatherization techs between now and 2015.
"The last thing we should be doing is training more people," Dorrer said.
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500 Mainers took a state housing authority course to become weatherization technicians. Another 200 became certified energy auditors.<<<<
Who are these people????
We’re still waiting here in Michigan too. Utility prices are the only than that has bloomed.
The number of green jobs is a moving target in Maine? Could that be related to the fact that the green job market is based on a hoax? The hoax being that politicians can change the activity of the sun?
SEIU parasites.
Green=Red
In before it’s “Bush’s Fault!”
500 idiots and 200 morons. If you need to take a state housing authority course to become weatherization technician you’re definitely on the low end of the IQ scale.
susan collins and olympia snowe - remember them?
Dinner at the White House, 15 minutes of fame
all to advancing porkulous as a “ bipartisan” vote
where’s the jobs?
“SEIU parasites.”
That’s what I was thinking. Brotherhood of Weatherization Workers Local #1.
I don't know but they are entitled to have "Loser" tatooed prominently on their bodies at state expense.
Despite predictions, state’s green economy yet to bloom but it`s green on the north side of the pines.
Despite predictions, state’s green economy yet to bloom but there`s a green slime covering the White House
A Command 'n' Control economy failure? Who could have seen that coming?
This is what happens when government substitutes its decisions for those of the free market.
Only a complete idiot needs a government training course to learn that cold air coming around the windows and doors runs up the heating bill.People bought storm windows ,stopped draughts,and installed insulation if they were smart.
I also know many chose to simply use more fuel until the fuel prices soared;people who grew up with cheap fuel just didn't see the need to "waste" money on insulating.
Oddly,many newer commercial buildings ,including my workplace,have no insulation;nor did several huge buildings I worked in previous over the past 20 years.Yet they were all built after the 1973 oil crisis and after the big public campaigns to conserve energy of the Carter years.Apparently big businesses find it cheaper to buy energy than use improved construction.Check out new commercial,government, and retail buildings in your area and be prepared for a shock.
Nobody with a brain is going to support a green economy. Environmental is the same as communist. Green is the new Red.
Which is why government will mandate the products and services that make up their supposed green economy. Then, we'll have no choice.
And then they'll claim to have used the market to make the environment cleaner.
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