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Aug. 11, 2009
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Clean-energy market filled with job prospects, senator says

By JENNIFER ROBISON
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
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Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., wants to change the old electoral axiom: "As Ohio goes, so goes the nation."

After listening to a panel of energy experts at UNLV discuss the future of green energy, Cantwell has a new twist on the traditional saying.

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    • "As Nevada goes, so goes the nation," she said as the audience applauded.

    The clean-energy market is a $6 trillion global market, Cantwell said, and that means major job opportunities for the Silver State and the rest of the country.

    Cantwell highlighted the remarks of UNLV professor Keith Schwer, who directs the university's Center for Business and Economic Research.

    "As professor Schwer said, you can not only produce enough energy for us here in the United States, but some of that can help make the United States a leader in energy technology that we can export to other countries," she said.

    Cantwell also referred to earlier remarks from oilman T. Boone Pickens, who spoke of the national security boost the nation could receive if it switched trucks from diesel fuel to natural gas.

    Transitioning 6.5 million 18-wheelers to natural-gas fuel would cut in half the need for oil imported from Venezuela and other countries sometimes unfriendly to the United States, Pickens said. A law before Congress now would mandate the change, which could happen within the decade, Pickens said.

    Observed Cantwell: "When an oilman from Texas says we need to get off of oil, it can't be any clearer."

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    Green Dragon Regular wrote on August 11, 2009 09:40 PM: @JD-

    Um, right. Therefore every taxpaying citizen in the U.S. should feel ripped off by anyone who makes a profit?

    I guess it's time to shut down Raytheon, Northrup-Grumman, General Dynamics, Boeing... Indeed, justice for all.

    Tell you what, kids, come back later whn you understand how capitalism and open government work. Then we'll talk.


    JD wrote on August 11, 2009 12:33 PM: @ GDR:
    Problem is that the taxpayer pays for the Picken's profits.

    Say that one fast...


    Green Dragon Regular wrote on August 11, 2009 10:26 AM: @Mike-

    Okay, let's just say for a moment that Mr. Pickens doesn't "give a hoot" about the environment. So what? If his goals and intentions result in profits to him and a cleaner environment, what harm has been done?

    Clearly a person of high intelligence who spends a great deal of time in Colorado and Wyoming fishing and hunting, the evidence about him, however, speaks to the contrary. Mr. Pickens in all likelihood cares a great deal for the environment and has found a way to benefit both himself and the environment- which belongs to all of us, thus benefitting all.

    So, Mike, what is it that you are so opposed to here? Someone making a profit while benefitting society? Or is it the fact that he's a wealthy man? Which is it?


    Mike K. wrote on August 11, 2009 09:09 AM: "Prospects" are nice, but what people need right now are real jobs that will pay their bills, and not something down the road a year or three.

    T. Boone Pickens interest in this is just in trying to get the government to pay for the extraction of natural gas and the construction of electrical transmission lines so he doesn't have to, and then he gets all the profits at little cost.


    Mike wrote on August 11, 2009 08:43 AM: TB Pickens could give a hoot about the environment. He is behind wind power because he's trying to build a zillion dollar transmission line; he's behind natural gas powered anything, because he owns a gazillion cubic feet of the stuff.

    Get a grip, writers!


    A Contractor wrote on August 11, 2009 07:15 AM: These "jobs" of which they speak, have many conditions and many terms which describe union contracts to a tee. When they talk about the contractors involved paying a "living wage", they mean a UNION wage. The small print on Horeterds bill is what we the people need to be afraid of. If they get this on, you can plan on any and all stimulus money being spent on union only or PLA jobs.