Where are all the "Green" jobs?

Most of these "green" jobs require skilled laborer. This does not help the lower class or even some people in the middle class. We need manufacturing jobs for people that have no skills. Everyday people that just want to find work and only have a high school education. Those are the people that are hurting the most. My friend is a skilled laborer. He tried to get me on where he works putting up windmills. You have to be trained and love heights. You can]t just walk on a job site and expect to find work. You have to go through apprenticeship or go to college. There is probably a long queue for apprenticeships now.

My dear friend, I like your thought. But if project is still running and no one leave that so how can any vaccancy be possible? And other thing is suitability for the job. If people having the same skill for the project than they can do that job. I think.

Well because these green collar jobs do not create profit, and profit creates jobs. These green projects only create government debt due to all of the government subsidies to keep them running. To pay for the government debt, government must raise taxes on those that do create profit and in turn create jobs. Those for profit companies must lay off employee to stay afloat because of the new tax load placed on them to pay for those green jobs. So even though those green projects have employees they killed jobs in the process.

These places actually do not create very many jobs. The ones they do used imported people to fill the jobs. They did not use Americans to fill the technology jobs or the labor jobs. They never said who would get the jobs, just that they would create jobs. One must always read the fine print. Eco Industries always bring in their European buddies for the technological end of it. Americans are too stupid to fill the jobs OF COURSE! Shalom~Adoniah

They just aren't jobs for the regular folk. I saw where some are wanting to bring back shop classes in school and put more emphasis on students who are not going to college instead of doing all college prep. We need to concentrate on usable skills.

There's actually an ethanol company trying to buy U.S. Sugar now that the state has back out of most of it's deal. Their plan is to retrofit the $5 million mill which will not only keep folks down here working but will also add many additional jobs. Another plan is to build a new plant near the citrus processing plant also owned by Sugar which will use the left over rind and pulp for the production of ethanol. Florida Power and Light owns a subsidiary business named NextEra that builds wind turbine farms but they've been running into problems with NIMBY (not in my back yard) attitudes when it comes to building them. Here's an article from the Chicago Tribune about the dispute. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-wind-farm-debate-03-apr03,0,4913073.story Other projects have been held up for years, as the article states. Let's not forget the Kennedy family and other residents of Cape Cod, Mass., who for the last eight years have fought a plan to build the nation's first offshore wind farm, in part, because they say it would tarnish the natural beauty of Nantucket Sound. Projects that can't get off the ground aren't going to create jobs and, if you're talking about those ugly, tiny cars I've been seeing here and there down here....forget that. I would walk or ride a horse before buying one of those pitiful looking things.