[Peace-discuss] Green jobs?

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Excellent research and response Bob !

David J.

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From: "Bob Illyes" <illyes at uiuc.edu>
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Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Green jobs?


> Morriss is in the Law College, I think. He makes statements that aren't 
> true on inspection, such as "Never before in our history has the U.S. 
> government undertaken to produce such a massive shift in employment by 
> mandate."
>
> I guess he doesn't count wars, for starters. He probably doesn't count 
> public education either.
>
> Morriss appears to be connected to the traditional energy industry. See 
> http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org, which his UI page indicates he 
> is associated with.
>
> As Mort suggests, he is just making assertions without evidence. Looks 
> like just another lobbyist to me. He seems to assume that energy policy is 
> a zero-sum game. But it isn't.
>
> In the case of fossil fuel resources, I'm mystified by the almost sexual 
> urge to use up every last speck of them as soon as possible. What's the 
> hurry? This thinking is brought to us by the same crazy bunch that brought 
> us Enron and the current finance fiasco. These guys have, as someone said 
> of Blago, lost touch with reality.
>
> Bob
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