Obama: Wind Power Now Employs More Than Coal!!

[mr dude@harvarduniversity.edu]

"Wind industry jobs jumped to 85,000 in 2008, a 70% increase
from the previous year, according to a report released Tuesday
from the American Wind Energy Association. In contrast, the
coal industry employs about 81,000 workers. (Those figures
are from a 2007 U.S. Department of Energy report but coal
employment has remained steady in recent years though it's
down by nearly 50% since 1986.)"

Now about wind:

At the end of 2010, the installed capacity of wind power in the United
States was just over 40,000 megawatts (MW),[2][3] making it second in
the world behind China. Wind power accounts for about 3% of the
electricity generated in the United States.[4}

Now about coal:

In January, coal-fired plants contributed 47.1 percent of the power
generated in the United States.

So Presicunt Dumbfuck is bragging that wind power that supplies two
percent of our energy has to pay more employees than the coal industry
that supplies 47% of our energy is a great accomplishment?????

America! What a country!!!

mr dude (assembling my Black bruthers to remove this stain from our
social fabric)