Mitt: 64,000 Green Jobs in Massachusetts Are Merely An Illusion

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"Alas, like Solyndra, these loans are turning out to be historic opportunities to line the pockets of major campaign fundraisers. Fisker investors, including Al Gore himself, have donated more than $1 million to political campaigns – primarily Democrats. Tesla, for its part, has financial backing from a fundraiser who bundled hundreds of thousands of dollars for the President's campaign; Tesla's CEO is also a major Democratic donor who has poured money into Obama's campaign coffers.

Tesla's next vehicle is expected to list for $57,400. Fisker's car, already a year behind schedule, will cost $97,000. "We have a history of losses and we expect significant increases in our costs and expenses to result in continuing losses for at least the foreseeable future," says Tesla's most recent quarterly filing.

And neither firm has created many jobs. So far, approximately 100 workers are employed by Fisker in Wilmington, Del., while an additional 500 are actually assembling the cars in Finland. Tesla's record is only slightly better. Even these few jobs may be illusory: studies of Europe's green job experiments have found that each new green job destroys several other jobs elsewhere in the economy."

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/jobs-323475-obama-president.html

Mitt missed this study from his home state's Clean Energy Center:

"Indeed, investments in clean energy have clearly paid off. Massachusetts is currently home to 4,909 clean energy employers and 64,310 clean energy workers. Prior to this research effort, MASSCEC had identified 1,351 known clean energy firms - firms with 39,135 clean energy employees."

http://masscec.com/masscec/file/MassCEC%20Industry-Rept_DesignFinal%281%29.pdf

[rurallib]

1. hell of a problem has Mitt - run from his own record and dis his own state

although if he were honest isn't Utah really home?
But honesty seems a dream to the warrior Willard.

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2. Ha! Maybe Mitt v.1 should oppose Mitt v.2 in the primary

That would at least make it interesting.