Subject: [Homestead] Mother Earth -- Bail-out Green Energy
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:33:18 -0700 (PDT)
Short piece from Mother Earth News. I don't know if the people they quote
are legit or if they are radical hippie freaks. Over the years I've learned
to pretty much ignore MEN political stuff. But, I do like the thrust of this
argument ....bobford
A New Way of Looking At the Bailout
9/26/2008 4:53:35 PM
By Aly Van Dyke
Tags: bailout, green investment, green jobs
While the Senate wrestles to construct some kind of utilitarian financial
bailout, economists and political activists have moved out of the Wall Street
box – and into the green house.
With one-seventh the money it looks like it will take to bail out the economy
(so $100 billion), an investment in green power would produce nearly twice
the amount of jobs as the mortgage bailout would.