Someone explain this to me

The 11 million figure is worldwide, not the US, Katzguts.

It's a random number. The number of people working in the oil, natural gas, hydroelectric, wind power, and solar power industries is unknown. Do you count the gas station owners? Do you count the government bureaucrats? Do you count the drillers? Do you count the power company employees that work on the lines? Do you count the farmers and ranchers making use of irrigation waters these dams also provide? How about the extensive crew required to construct a hydroelectric project? How about their suppliers? How about the folks that build the homes for these workers?

Just how does one define as 'working in the renewable energy' industry'?
 
Lithium batteries are charged primarily from power plants. They can be charged from solar cells, but that is an expensive way to charge them.
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Far from the truth. Solar power is among the most expensive methods of producing power that there is. It's piddle power.

You really need to move into this century.

Even without subsidies solar and wind power have cheaper LCOE (Longterm cost of energy) than any power plant including combined cycle gas plants.

In 2020, the cost for Solar and wind is less than for any power plant being built.

https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation.pdf

By 2025, the cost of solar and wind is still projected to be less than gas fueled combined cycle power plants.
 
Earl: "More than half of U.S. households have investment in stock ..."
Jack; This is true, Earl. Which means 50% of Americans are 'hand-to-mouth' Worker Drones. And ... many of the other half that 'own' Stock are bit Players. Meaning, when they lose their Jobs, they sell their Stock to pay their House and Truck Notes.
No, the go and get another job. Apparently something you can't do, since you are unfamiliar with this process.
Earl: "So, Jacky, you want to punish half of the American households who are smart enough to invest in the stock market."
Jack: Most of the 'other half' aren't Millionaires, Earl. They are simply beneficiaries of the capitalist system they have invested in.
So are the workers, Jack. So are the workers.
Earl: "Go with taxing half the households in America. Great plan. Jacky."
Jack: Did you ever attempt to recoup your parents money? (their payment for your education was a dismal failure, give them my condolences) :(
Inversion fallacy.

You never learned with wealth is. You never learned what money is. You never learned what the stock market is. You never learned what the bond market is. You never learned about the effect of price controls. You never received an education of any kind in these matters.
 
Mathematicians in Chicago claim that buying 'a Basket of Stocks' versus buying a single stock amounts to a 'Free Lunch', Earl. (naturally, I'm not surprised you didn't know that)

"A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.Wikipedia"

Nope. No difference between a basket of stocks or a single stock, other than that you are spreading your investment over many companies instead of just the one.

Nothing in the stock market is a free lunch. Each company is a bunch of people that are working and producing wealth (unlike you).
 
He also thinks that the electric car is practical for all uses.
Far from the truth. Electric cars require a long time to refuel, and provide no better range than a typical gasoline car on a full tank of gasoline. A gasoline car can be refueled in minutes at any convenient gas station, while the electric car requires 8-10 hours to recharge it's battery sufficient for another such performance.

You really need to get into this decade.
I could drive a Tesla 2000 miles cross country. It might require me taking a half hour break every 300 miles while the car charges but I would take those breaks even with a gasoline powered car.
https://www.tesla.com/supercharger
 
Compared to Trump ... ANYTHING would be an improvement. All Trump has done is dug America into a large hole.

Lie. He actions resulted in the strongest economy in the history of the United States. He is doing it again, too, despite the Covid19 fear mongering brought about by people like you.
 
And how are we supposed to have an industrial revolution when we continue to gut the horse drawn carriage sector?

We will not expand our economy when we are shackled to oil technology.

Horses are not oil products. Perhaps you haven't noticed. The economy HAS expanded because of oil products. We are now an exporter of oil products.

We are not shackled to anything. We use oil products because they are so useful and cheap.
 
Horses are not oil products. Perhaps you haven't noticed.

Oil replaced horses, and the economy improved. Replacing oil could reasonably be predicted to greatly improve the economy. Your demand we hold on to old technologies will not improve the economy.
 
Darth Omar said:
If there’s one thing we can all agree on is we are in a recession.

How are we supposed to pull out of it while gutting the energy sector by instituting Green stuff and raising taxes at the same time?

It seems that would only deepen it—or if we’re very lucky, just extend it for a decade.

Where am I wrong?

Wrong everywhere. Give it up.

So you figure we aren't in a recession. Guess Trump was successful, despite Covid19. Way to go Trump!
So you figure we don't need to pull out of a recession. Guess Trump was successful!

Yay! jacksonsprat22 has declared we are no longer in a recession! He has declared that we do not need to recover from one! Thank you for supporting Trump!
 
you should look at Europe and their Green economy..
Germany is a mess , even though they just built Nordstream 2

Germany is a mess? In what way? I see they have similar GDP growth to the US for the last decade. They have reduced energy consumption during that same period and moved to more renewables.

You need to be more specific as to how they are a mess because it isn't in their economic data.
 
There are more green jobs than fossil fuel jobs in this country.
The Church of Green isn't a job. It's a religion. There is no fossil fuel industry. Fossils don't burn.
COVID dropping the global demand for oil
It's actually increasing right now.
is what will kill fossil fuel companies
There are no fossil fuel companies. There is nothing to be killed. Fossils don't burn.
..and it's all thanks to you.
Darth Omar probably appreciates you giving him god like powers, but he is not a god. He didn't create the Covid19 virus. He didn't create the Church of Green. He didn't create the oil industry. He can't burn fossils for fuel. Fossils don't burn.
 
We currently have low energy costs because COVID reduced global demand.
No. We have low energy costs because we can produce it cheaply. Coal is cheap. Oil is cheap. Natural gas is cheap. Nuclear energy is cheap enough, though more expensive then the previous three. Hydroelectric is cheap. It also provides irrigation water and tames rivers from causing seasonal destruction.
That is what kills jobs...lack of demand.
Demand is currently going up.
And those jobs were killed by a lack of demand
Far from dead, and demand is going up.
thanks 100%, entirely and completely, to you.

Again, you give Darth Omar god like abilities. I hope you appreciate this, Darth. LV246 seems to be trying to worship you.
 
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