The worst Governor in America, Michigan’s very own Jennifer Granholm (D), is on Obama’s short list for an administration job after her term ends. Via the Politico’s 50 to watch list:
Granholm’s résumé includes a Harvard law degree and stints as a state attorney general and a Detroit federal prosecutor. She hopes to find work near her current passion: creating clean energy jobs.
Imagine what our unemployment rate would be without those heavily subsidized ‘clean energy’ jobs.
“I am very bullish on green,” she said.
Good for you, Jenny. You might be bullish on ‘green energy’ but people in Europe and Asia are finding that ‘green energy’ is an economic loser.
An adviser on the economic transition team when Obama was president-elect, Granholm has worked tirelessly to transform Michigan’s old automotive manufacturing towns. She wooed a chairman of a solar panel company with Super Bowl tickets, traveled to Japan to lobby an auto-parts company to expand in Michigan and launched the job-retraining program for auto workers called “No Worker Left Behind.”
“[Granholm was] an adviser on the economic transition team when Obama was president-elect.” That sentence speaks for itself.
And like the president, she’s deployed an economic arsenal of tax credits and loans to ensure clean energy components are made in America. In fact, the two leaders’ energy policies frequently harmonize, especially as the administration pushes for electric-car manufacturing plants that Granholm wants to build in her state.
Electric vehicles have been hyped for a 100 years and have never really come to fruition. There are no free lunches when it comes to powering automobiles. You either will burn gasoline or coal for an EV. Wind power will never be a viable source for large scale electric power. One other problem with EV’s is the United States has very little lithium for lithium ion batteries. We need to import lithium from places like Bolivia
By the way, the Nissan Leaf EV isn’t selling so well.
“Everything he says about clean energy are words that I could have said,” she said with a chuckle. “I shouldn’t say that. He’s says them so much more eloquently than I do.”
Gack…..
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