The president of the United States is an easy man to
criticize. Someone with so much responsibility has to have a weak point, so all
one has to do is wait for one of the thousands of balls the president is
juggling to fall, and then blame him for letting that issue go. Critics of
Obama’s green energy philosophy have been aiming at everything from the
presumed infeasibility of renewable energy sources to the cost of such measures
in an attempt to discredit what will probably be known as Obama’s piece de
resistance.
Republicans are now assaulting unemployment as the newest
vulnerability in Obama’s renewable energy plan. Obama promised that green
energy in all its forms would create jobs for American citizens. The Copper Mountain Solar Project overlooking Nevada only created
ten jobs for residents of the United
States, doing little to ease unemployment in
republican eyes.
The fallacy in this line of thinking is that green energy
critics are looking solely at one plant and the jobs it has created, but
comparing it to the formidable sum of money that Obama has spent
revolutionizing how we power our homes all over the United States. While billions of
dollars is a lot of money for one small factory to produce ten jobs, it’s much
more effective when considering the widespread effect renewable energy is
having on the country as a whole.
While sustainable energy sources may not be immediately
providing jobs to citizens who need them, it is important to remember that
unemployment is only one of the problems green energy is working to solve.
While it’s easy to cast blame at the president when one of the thousands of
problems he is working on falls through, it would be more effective to actually
evaluate the good he’s doing for this United States.
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