Seattle‘s ’Green Jobs’ Stimulus Success… Wait, Isn’t This A Massive Failure?
- Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:38am by
Mike Opelka
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Seattle’s Mayor Mike McGinn was so proud to be invited to the White House last year by VP Joe Biden. McGinn’s city, Seattle had been chosen to be one of the 25 communities to receive a $20 million dollar slice of the $452 million dollars allocated through the Stimulus program as part of something called “Retrofit Ramp Up.”
Retrofit Ramp Up is a program from the Department of Energy that was spending Stimulus dollars to have houses insulated and made more energy efficient. The plan was to funnel cash into local economies with the intent to create good-paying green jobs while simultaneously reducing energy consumption. Just over a year later, we are starting to see the results of the program.
Seattle’s $20 million dollar allocation was projected to create some 2000 “green jobs” and retrofit at least 2000 homes. Mayor McGinn’s website calls the program “Weatherize Every Building” (WEB) and when the stimulus award was announced, the mayor made a strong prediction:
WEB Initiative will create nearly 2,000 living wage green jobs, and will leverage the grant funding seven-to-one with local investments in energy efficiency.
Just over a year later, the facts on this “Green Jobs” project are not exactly encouraging. Seattle TV station KOMO4 reports:
But more than a year later, Seattle’s numbers are lackluster. As of last week, only three homes had been retrofitted and just 14 new jobs have emerged from the program. Many of the jobs are administrative, and not the entry-level pathways once dreamed of for low-income workers. Some people wonder if the original goals are now achievable.
The entire KOMO report is here:
Only three homes have been retrofitted or insulated in a year? One report claims that only 337 homeowners have stepped up and applied for the program, with only 14 gaining approval.
The effect that the program has had on Seattle’s unemployment is also questionable. In April of 2010, when the $20 million dollar block grant was announced, Seattle’s unemployment stood at 9.0%. As of June 2011, Seattle had a 9.3% unemployment number.
The city of Seattle has the money available to spend and the grant is good until 2013. Seattle’s City Manager for Community Power Works, Joshua Curtis says in order to create 2000 jobs, the city needs to retrofit 100-200 homes each month. According to the KOMO report, they have yet to reach double digits in total.
Over a year since the announcement, the city of Seattle has created 14 jobs.
The lack of jobs is no surprise to local Green Advocates. Go Green is a community organizing group that says it works for the environment and social justice. Got Green’s director Michael Woo (as seen in the KOMO report) says:
“It’s been a very slow and tedious process. It’s almost painful, the number of meetings people have gone to. Those are the people who got jobs. There’s been no real investment for the broader public.”
Even the Greenies see this as disaster.
Epic Fail.
H/T - KOMO
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Comments (170)
love the kids
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:52amIt for sure couldn’t be called BLUE jobs, because someone is shooting the wad all over the place.
agameofthrones
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:59am20 million divided by 14 = $1,428,571.00 for each job. Even with the cost of retrofitting each of those 3 homes, the money left would be a big salary! Where can I apply. What a great use of stimulus money. Who are these 14 new millionaires?
Report Post »becker88
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:19pmMore bologna to brainwash liberals into thinking that new jobs are being created.
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos
Report Post »love the kids
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 1:06pmLet’s do the math their way,
Report Post »$20,000,000 divided by 2000 jobs created = $10,000 per job. Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t that a low paying job? Even at $400 a week on unemployment you would earn $20,800. You do the math.
The reason this story came up is because they are back to get mo money because they could get so much more. Now the fed money has run out and the program just got pushed to the state.
azmomof6
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 1:21pmWas the money supposed to go both to buying materials and paying wages? If no money was spent on supplies for the homes at all and there were really 2000 jobs created, doesn’t make each job worth only $10,000? A $10,000 job will not get a family through a year. All of their numbers are bogus! $20,000,000 is not enough money for 2,000 families to live on, especially when much of that money probably has to be spent on supplies. Didn’t the city have to provide a plan when filing for this stimulus? You know, with questions like, how many houses need work, how much will each home cost, how many people will be needed to do the work. Aside from the fact that these numbers don’t work, maybe we should ask the question of whether or not our money should be taken from us to fix up other people’s homes. I’m certain that is not why taxes were originally put in place in this country. And I know I absolutely would not vote to have my taxes used this way. If government is going to take people’s money, they ought to have a darn good reason, like defending our boarders. That 20 million could have made a difference on our Southern border here. These people who cannot prioritize should not be in government! Stop taking our money in taxes for your own wasteful projects and let us stimulate the economy ourselves. Better yet, let us learn to save our money and acquire wealth!
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 1:46pm“shovel ready wasn’t as shovel ready as we expected”.
Report Post »ENCNIOM
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 3:58pm@Avengerk
Report Post »My love Obama created tons of shovel ready jobs. Just because you Teabagg’in r a c i s t s cannot see beyond your noses does not mean My President did not create shovel ready jobs. He passed the best Health Care Bill in the world and has shovel ready jobs in the fine print. When the death panels cut off care to grandma some one will have to dig her grave. For each 20 Grandma’s sent to the earth gods each week there will be 5 jobs created. That’s 20 millions jobs created or saved in the mortuary business – ya bunch of t e r r o r i s t s teabaggers!
HawaiiDonald
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:17pmazmomof6 – You have to understand how the liberal programs work. This isn’t about buying anything or paying anyone, it is about redistribution of wealth.
Report Post »Typical program. 20 Mil goes to advertising the program, printing paperwork, creating rules, laws and regulations, enforcing the program, and paying consultants and lawyers. This is supposed to stimulate the sheep to upgrade their homes, hiring contractors. The contractors then have to agree to comply with all the paperwork, charge less, earn less, and ask for tax credits which they will file for wrong and get rejected. If the homeowner opts to do the work themselves, they will have the same problem complying with the 30,000 pages of requirements and they get nothing as well.
As others said-if upgrading your home actually saves money, you don‘t need the government to encourage you to do it and you don’t need to spend tax dollars on it. It doesn’t CREATE jobs, pay wages or offset costs.
INOGAWD
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 6:51pmGoing Green is an Eyesore, You want to see windmills go to Holland.
Report Post »INOGAWD
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 6:59pm@ENCNIOM
Report Post »Your wasting your tiime, Back to Huff-Po..
Actually I’m wasting my time commenting on you Post..
Won’t happen again.
JDF10487
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:46amGreen Jobs is an Oxymoron.
Report Post »wtune
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 1:07pmSo is President Obama!
Report Post »OneCitizenOfTheRepublic
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 2:37pmThe correct phrase is, Obama-moron. usage. I voted for Obama, I’m an Obama-moron!
Report Post »HawaiiDonald
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:20pmNo Oxy, just moron. clearly these guys are Oxygen starved, another impact of global warming and greenhouse gasses poor slobs.
Report Post »JohnHW
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:42am@JOEI234
You call everyone names and spout off like you are a Christian or something. But I haven’t seen any positive comments from you today and you have only been signed on since 8/12.
In reply to your comments in this blog on GBTV — it doesn’t even start until 9/12. What you see now is them just working out the bugs in a new media of putting TV onto the web. I just hate to see people waste what little brain power they were given and then not try to improve it as God wants you to do!
Report Post »tcseacliff
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:36pmwhat part of “these guys are ******** and the programs are a scam” don’t you get?
Report Post »Bullcop34
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 1:48pm@John….you poor soul, you obviously need some remedial math classes. Let’s break it down Barney style for you. I’ll go slow, well, you need to read slow cause I’m just actually typing. But don’t get lost, I’m not really in front of you showing you this. 20 million divided by 2 thousand is 10 thousand. Now, sir, do you really think that a single person, much less a family of three could make it off of 10 thousand a year?? Who cares when the project starts, it still ads up to 2 thousand low paying, way below poverty level jobs. You need to grow up and stop listening to the left leaning green genies. The FACTUAL math numbers do not make your green jobs BS reality. It is a total abject failure, much like obama and our government has been for decades.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:42amGreen jobs is a RIPOFF. Let me give you an example…
The Director of Public Services in Cleveland, OH, in coordination with the Mayor and City Council, have implemented one of their Green Agenda trial balloon nightmares under the guise of a “pilot program” described as “free” in pamphlets issued to Cleveland residents.
It‘s a community recycling and trash pickup program touted as a way to reduce the city’s costs of garbage disposal by forcing residents to sort their trash (forced servitude – doing unpaid work the garbageman is paid to do) in order to be picked up by the recycling truck. The city then turns around and sells the presorted recyclables at a profit, while simultaneously hefting a secret tax on the residents by adding a $9 surcharge on garbage pickup to all residents ON THEIR WATER/SEWER BILL! The city then uses the revenue to purchase more cans WITH TRACKING MICROCHIPS to FINE YOU if you don’t comply with their NONMANDATORY “pilot program” – described as “free”!!
They put the hidden garbage tax on the water/sewer bill so that the people cannot vote on a TAX HIKE by law.
HERE COMES THE GREEN POLICE TO FINE YOU FOR NOT ADHERING TO THE ARBITRARY GREEN AGENDA LIKE THE AUDI COMMERCIAL!
Why do you think Rahm Emmanuel wanted to be Mayor of Chicago?
They try to use loose interpretations of city ordinance to coerce you into compliance with their “local rules and regulations”!
Not to mention, the garbageman is out of a job to a robotic arm
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:38amFed Govt GETS TOO MUCH MONEY
Report Post »tankyjo
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:32amThe anarchists will burn Seattle, long before anything “green” gets done out there.
Report Post »subdoc
Posted on August 18, 2011 at 6:17amThat would be terrible ;)
Report Post »klevalt
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:31amI don’t know why this surprises anyone!
Report Post »dcwu
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:21amWorse than Carter.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:21amWA State, it takes a lot of village idiots to do anything in WA State…everything is put to a vote, I mean everything…they want it but when they vote they don’t want to pay for it…so nothing gets done and we pay state, county and city employees excellent money to sit and plan…actually all they do is REGULATE!!!
One of the many reasons why WA State now has floods…instead of removing the debris in the rivers that clog up the rivers, they now call it channel migration and natural for floods…they stopped removing (dredging) river debris in the late 70′s, then over-permitted for homes in suspect flood plane areas, homes on hillsides etc etc etc. Now they are having to buy out the homes that are hardest hit by the floods as they are afraid of a lawsuit…really…no kidding. And they don’t buy the house at the prevailing cost of building new or what you can sell the home for in the market.
And the FEDS, Corp of Eng who built the levees no longer maintain them…it was part of one of those cost reduction programs that the public wanted and the government granted. LOL They turned them over to the states and the states had no funds and nor did they intend on using the federal funds to maintain the levees…now that may have turned around over the last few massive floods throughout the US…
Bloody ranchers don’t know how to run a farm.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:14amIsn’t this like the 3rd of 4th reporting of a “Green Jobs” failure?
First that Solinas electric car company in California goes belly up and the money is now missing, then a BP plant on the East Coast to build solar panels with stimulus funds goes under, another Solar Panel company is going under and now this cash for caulkers failure can be added onto the list… boy, its great to see how the “green economy” is just chugging along, after all, look how prosperous Spain is with its green economy… oh, that’s right, their economy is in shambles, super high unemployment and they are stepping into line for a Euro bailout behind Greece Portugal, Ireland and others…
Drill baby Drill !!! Build those Nuke Plants!!! – Frack On!!! — Energy that has always worked and keeps on working!
Report Post »drbage
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:21amThe O keeps saying that we have to be more like Europe, so in this case we are imitating Spain’s green economy where every “green” job created eliminated three non-green jobs. Love how all these government-funded jobs use the term “living wage” without ever defining it. Does it mean the minimum wage, the minimum government wage, the minimum union wage…?
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:26amThis is criminal is there anyway to trace where the 20,000,000 went?
Report Post »DDD
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:34amJOE1234, Did you say something? No? Didn’t think so. Must be one of those invisible trolls.
Report Post »LinkedIn G
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:53amAt Joey…It costs as much as a starbucks each month…WELL worth the price…AlGores network…CNN…NBC aren’t breaking any records.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:16pmInteresting how a troll such as you can pass judgement on a service which doesn’t officially launch until Sept 12th.
Interesting how Becks program was the top rated in its time slot, interesting how investors want to know what Beck and GBTV are doing as they see it as the future of TV/Entertainment delivery.
More interesting is yet another irate liberal has to change the subject from the topic and try to {very poor} redirect the conversation elsewhere…. sorry, blather on about Beck and GBTV all you want, the walls of the Green illusion are falling down and the “Green Economy” just like Keynesian Economics is an EPIC FAIL.
Oh, and tell your mommy to pick up a fresh bag of dorito’s for you, you must be all out working up your basement blogger rage at the continuing failure of the progressive facade… see you in 2012 ;-)
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:16pm@joe1234 sssshhhhh Joe, adults are speaking.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:37pmHey capitalismrocks,
Report Post »Anyone who wanted to know what green jobs do to a country’s economy need only look to Spain where it was implemented 5 or 6 years ago. It’s an utter failure that is collapsing the spains government through subsidities. It destroyed two jobs that actually made money for every one subsidized position it created.
An AmericanMom
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 2:02pmI love GBTV and look forward to watching it officially when it kicks in September 12th, 2011….and looking forward to watching the Israel broadcast on August 24th…sorry J the troll has his panties in a wad…..cause I bet he can‘t watch any of the information videos on the site now cause he’s not signed up yet…..poor troll..don’t worry J there with be more to come on line shortly.
Report Post »NytMuves
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 2:03pmI think Joe1234 is an abysmal failure. I think he sucks like an airplane toilet and is a total waste and a piece of crap. See? Just like joe1234 I give no reasoning, no evidence or any imputus whatsoever for criticizing GBTV. I simply state it and thus it is so. Typical liberal.
Report Post »busdriver
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 3:17pmeven if Joe1234s claim was true,how many tax dollars were wasted?
Report Post »HawaiiDonald
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:32pm@JLGunner – That is the best comeback to a Troll I have ever seen. I hope you don’t mind if I copy that from now on. I hope every one takes note here. These guys like Joe shouldn’t even be recognized.
Oh, and I wasn’t talking to you Joe1234 (yes we are impressed you can count that high, now go play) I was talking to the adults.
Report Post »boca_chica
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:07amThe beaurecratic mantra” give US the money, we are smarter than the dumb citizens”.
Report Post »WILLIAM E.
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:04amJust goes to show once again the government does not creat jobs !! They do not understsnd anything about it. W/ 8% who worked in the private sector in this administration what else is to be expected.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:22amReally, well maybe you should tell Rick Perry that since the largest increase in jobs in Texas the last 10 years were in State government jobs. Those darn pesky facts, such a bother.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:28pmShow links pointing to your “facts” about govt growth vs. private sector growth in TX under Perry, otherwise its another empty liberal lie.
Report Post »rudderfish
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 2:11pmSimpleTruths,
Report Post »You just don’t get it do you….
Tea Party members and true conservatives don’t like large government. Whether it be at the federal, state, or even local level. It doesn’t matter if it is run by Republicans or Democrats. We don’t like big government!
Dinkiecb
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:58amAnd people wonder why the government is broken….
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:06amSo 3 houses insulated and 14 new non-productive jobs all for the low low price of 20,000,000.00
Report Post »To quote Eddie Murphy ‘WHAT A BARGIN”
jb.kibs
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:09amLOL @ smithclar3nc3
Report Post »Now THAT is a bargain for me!
dcwu
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:20amLet’s see here.
Report Post »3 houses @ 2,000,0000 each plus 14 jobs @ 1,000,000 each.
That used up the money!
Oh Patty, Patty Murray, the program needs more money.
Send maybe $200,000,000 this time.
Green is good!
MidWestMom
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:32amObviously they only used union workers…..
Report Post »michael48
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:55amthis is the Fun-da-mental Change to America …the Marxist in Charge, has in store for US…230 years of SUCESS, WIPED OUT in 2 years of DEM-WIT /// PROGRESSIVE….CRAPOLA…(D)= DANGEROUS…move DC to the Galapagos….surround it with MINES and provide ZERO …WATER, POWER, FOOD…welcome to YOUR UTOPIA…COMRADES..
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:19amCome on, it has been more than 2 years, the democrats took over and in 2007 and certainly hastened our demise. But for centuries the Lincoln one of the first progressives laid the groundwork, picked up by those like FDR, Wilson, Kennedy, Carter, Bush, Clinton, Bush, and now finally Obama. You do have to give these guys credit for long term goals, and no matter how many times slapped down, they get right back up and keep on swinging.
Report Post »hoopojoop
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:53amAnother success for Obama and if you say otherwise, you are RACIST!
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:04amThe word Racist has lost it’s meaning. Fact is in most of the case in which it is used today it‘s more of a badge of honor stating that you won’t let these leftist loons use the threat of BS labels to scare you into submission. The Funny part is the real Racist are groups like the new black panthers,and the NAACP and they vote Democratic religiously. But those are just facts and we know how liberal hate facts.;
Report Post »elosogrande
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:53amWhat do you expect? The program is run by politicians and bureaucrats who don’t know what to do. They have spent their lives, aimlessly ******* away other people’s money.
You will never see one of these agencies would put competent people in charge of spending our money. It is not in their best interest.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:49amWell Mr. Mayor, you might as well just take the 20 mil and treat everyone in town to starbucks. I’m sure that would be a better use for it.
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:54amwow 6million plus per home. ok what crooked politico has sucked up the money???
Report Post »Sy Kosys
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:32am@OWG-
Bill Gates? lmao
btw, ‘OWG’ is my gang-name….it means ‘Overly White Guy’ lolz
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:48am.
Report Post »They should just stick with the orignal green job. Changing a new born’s diaper……….
LinkedIn G
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 1:08pmWith diapers you have to wash…of course.
Report Post »Rapunzel
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:47amEven had it been a success it would still be a failure. What happens when the 2000 homes have been retrofitted? The jobs go away, and the workers are laid off.
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:47amsee a cartoon that exposes the real objective of the Global Warming Scam click on: http://commonsense21c.com/images/GLOBAL_WARMING_SCAM.jpg
Report Post »starman70
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:09amA cute cartoon but it doesn’t go far enough. Another arrow should be labeled “Campaign Contributions” and point from the Peer/Cronie back to the Tyrant.
Thar is how things work in politics.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:47amThe “green economy” is a mirage, always has been. It even sounds like something thought up by a couple guys sitting around listening to the Greatful Dead with a bong. ” Yea man, we can create a whole new way of life dude, with windmills and solar panels and unicorns running free… quit bogarting that thing bro. Did you take the last beer dude? That’s bogus.”
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:08amYep.
Not all “green” things are bad (I personally like energy efficient appliances, for example, they save me money on my electricity bill), the artificial non-market driven push for technology nobody is clamoring for is futile at best. There are small markets for these things, natural markets grown as markets should be, by consumer drive, but there is just no large segment of the population clamoring for this stuff.
Politicians simply do not, and have never grasped, the basic market fundamental of supply-and-demand. They‘re not very bright I’m afraid.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:16pmSure Ghost I agree. Everyone wants to save energy, clean air and water. It only makes sense. Just don’t try and force us to use technology that is inadequate for the purpose that it is intended.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:25pmI agree too… I was using CFL’s back in 1996-97 when I bought my townhouse. I did it to save money, those first gen bulbs claimed 7 years and died after 2, but it helps. I have a house now and the whole house as the regular bulbs went out, I replaced them, the 60 watts really don’t put out a good 60, and after 6mos to a year they dim, so I use 75watts – they are still around 14-17watts in usage, so it helps.
I’ve had one bulb where the base cracked open and I was a bit worried, it was a high hat, so I put a plastic bag over it and carefully removed it and put it into another bag to make sure it was save to throw out, the mercury issue is a big one, also what I hate about the bulbs is they all buzz/hum and its annoying at times.
I don’t do it for the planet, the green I go for is more green back in my wallet, if I’m using less energy for the planet, thats a nice by-product, but not my main interest. Same thing down at the pool, I have solar heater panels, not to save the planet, but to save me from several hundred in heating costs to heat the pool…. maybe when the GOP gets in, they can push Green the right way, to save people money first and foremost. If it helps the planet, hey that’s great too.
Report Post »Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:45amWow, another successfull Obama program and of taxpayer money….it would have been better spend on pond tadpole counters and shrimp treadmill observers…..What a bismal failure he has been. Jimmy Carter Smiles now….he will not be the worst in history as Obama took that away several months ago. I know the ******** will love this remark buts it true based on polls. The Libterdial Party, previously know as the DNC, really picked a loser on this guy…
Report Post »James83940
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:44amNone of this surprises me. A similar “green jobs” program in Massachusetts just filed for Chapter 11 http://www.bostonherald.com/business/technology/general/view.bg?articleid=1358998&pos=breaking
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:19amAnd only 270 Chevy Volts have been bought nationwide. Success!
Report Post »NOT!
MidWestMom
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:28amOh yeah, we’re on a roll now!! Huzzah!
Report Post »[heavy sarcasm intended]
capitalismrocks
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 2:22pmAnonymous – to be fair, last count was just around the high 400′s, into the low 500′s…. hardly the 50,000 they claimed to sell….
It still makes NO sense why GM brought this piece of crap out. Back in the 1990′s GM developed the EV-1 electric vehicle, it was a huge success, then without any explanation they destroy all of the motor systems and apparently only 3-5 of them still exist in museums, gutted.
Now here’s the kicker – the reason the Prius exists is BECAUSE OF THE EV-1 !!! Toyota built it in response to the EV-1 that is thought GM would release. So 15 years and $50Billion later, what do we have? A car that costs twice as much as the Prius with 1/2 the performance and each one sold cost taxpayers $7,600 in sudsidies… nice, really nice…
Just think what the EV-1 would be today with a modern battery system and control module !!!
http://www.bing.com/search?q=who+killed+the+electric+car&go=&qs=AS&sk=&pq=who+killed+the&sp=1&sc=8-14&form=QBLH
Report Post »WhatsYerProblem
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:43am$1,428,571.43 per job! Nice.
Report Post »WhatsYerProblem
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:46am14 people working on 3 houses?
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 11:17am@ WhatsYerProblem
Probably more like 1 person working on 3 houses and 13 people working as “administration”.
Report Post »After all, somebody has to shuffle all that paperwork.
Liberty4Nevada
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:44pmAt the rate of pay the admins are probably getting they will run out of money just on time in ‘13.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:41amPathetic and a disgrace to the color green.
Report Post »MontanaRob
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:51amYeah, Kermit should be p!$$ed!!!
Report Post »HKS
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 10:55amLiberals hijack words all the time, I remember when green meant more money, now they have changed it to mean “no money, no jobs” Times have changed.
Report Post »HawaiiDonald
Posted on August 17, 2011 at 5:44pmAs Kermit says, “It ain’t easy being green!”, in fact it’s downright expensive.
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