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To: Triffin who wrote (62661)	4/30/2008 7:24:40 PM
From: gamesmistress	Respond to of 541076

Sounds like paying farmers to not grow anything, or grow corn. A real market distortion for the sake, I guess, of what they think is a worthy goal.

To: Triffin who wrote (62661)	4/30/2008 11:03:05 PM
From: quehubo	Respond to of 541076

As far as East Germany getting the 540 engineering jobs for solar construction, you could not fill that many engineering jobs in the USA. Presently competition for engineers is fierce with positions staying open for years. East Germany may have much greater access to cheap engineers than the USA. If this plant did not go to East Germany it would go to China or India where they are graduating engineers and they will work for peanuts. Manufacturing here in the USA? Forget about it energy costs and everything else is too expensive. Second this is what Cogito is talking about. Another government distortion causing tremendous pain for tax payers. So who is going to pay the subsidy? Industry would just assume export a business so it could export all its power back onto the grid at the margins talked about in this article. You guessed right the stupid consumer will pay through the nose for this green power.