This is United States Special Presidential
Envoy for Climate John Kerry.
It’s a new, bullshit position created for him to continue grifting by his buddy Biden.
This is what he said:
That’s a load of horseshit.
These people looked at salary vs. risk and chose the job of their own free will. This “better choice” is condescending bullshit.
It’s also a false choice. Solar panel manufacturing is almost exclusively done in China.
Why?
Because it’s toxic as fuck to make solar panels and China is the source of much of the raw elements that go into them. China is also the source of all the rare earth elements that go into energy capture and they are gaining huge control over coltan mining in Africa. China doesn’t like to sell raw materials when it gets so much more value selling final products.
You want proof?
Solyndra burned $500 Million in government money to not make anything but an empty factory.
Oil is a domestic natural resource. We control it and we use it.
We’re not going to shut down drilling and put those workers to work making the same salaries making solar panels. We all know that. We are going to end up buying those solar panels from China and Biden’s buddies who own the solar panel companies will profit from the outsourced manufacturing.
Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Energy made similar comments at her confirmation hearing.
This is a bait and switch. They are claiming that it’s okay if they fire you now from your $98K per year (average) oil drilling job because at some point in the future you will get a new job installing solar panels or repairing wind turbines.
We all know it’s bullshit.
Even if the job growth rate of wind turbine technicians and solar panel installers is what they claim it to be, those jobs are years down the road. A laid-off master pipefitter today in his late 30s or 40s isn’t going to the prime candidate for employment fixing wind turbines in his 40s or 50s.
“I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today”
I’ve never seen politicians so brazenly say “we’re going to destroy your job – in the middle of a pandemic, by the way – and that is good for you, you’ll thank us later.”
Fire a bunch of guys making good money on the oil fields and then bullshit them with the idea of new jobs in the future that we all know will never materialize.
There are a lot of bulldozers from pipeline projects that will be sitting idle and a lot of welders with a lot of free time on their hands.
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