First Solar
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Excerpts from an Apr 30, 2008 NY Times op-ed titled Dumb as We Wanna Be by Thomas L. Friedman :
It is great to see that we finally have some national unity on energy policy. Unfortunately, the unifying idea is so ridiculous, so unworthy of the people aspiring to lead our nation, it takes your breath away.While all the presidential candidates were railing about lost manufacturing jobs in Ohio, no one noticed that America’s premier solar company, First Solar, from Toledo, Ohio, was opening its newest factory in the former East Germany — 540 high-paying engineering jobs — because Germany has created a booming solar market and America has not.
It is also alarming, says Rhone Resch, the president of the Solar Energy Industries Association, that the U.S. has reached a point “where the priorities of Congress could become so distorted by politics” that it would turn its back on the next great global industry — clean power — “but that’s exactly what is happening.” If the wind and solar credits expire, said Resch, the impact in just 2009 would be more than 100,000 jobs either lost or not created in these industries, and $20 billion worth of investments that won’t be made.
In 1997, said Resch, America was the leader in solar energy technology, with 40 percent of global solar production. “Last year, we were less than 8 percent, and even most of that was manufacturing for overseas markets.”
The McCain-Clinton proposal is a reminder to me that the biggest energy crisis we have in our country today is the energy to be serious — the energy to do big things in a sustained, focused and intelligent way. We are in the midst of a national political brownout.
First Solar is booming, Stocks are up. Too bad they have a charge of Racial Discrimination filed against them with the EEOC
They Hired an African American man against policy when he could not pass the required test. Yet , not the white people who could not pass the test. They also terminated a white worker with three forklft incidents yet kept the Black man with the same number of incidents. We recently received an email from a man terminated from a rumor stating he was selling mushrooms on the work floor. He states he was not yet was terminated. This company needs a Good Strong UNION to stop some of the shinanigans going on there. They have an "AT WILL" POLICY Which means they think they can treat employees anywat they want to with no regard to their civil rights.
posted by upset on Apr 24, 2008 at 01:26:31 pm #