{"id":10124,"date":"2009-09-23T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-23T00:01:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T00:01:33","slug":"democrats-can-pass-a-green-jobs-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/23\/democrats-can-pass-a-green-jobs-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats can pass a Green Jobs bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to hand it to Nancy Skinner (AD-14). &nbsp;She understands what it takes to get the public to be responsible for their own energy use and cost. &nbsp;Her sponsorship of AB560 would expand the amount of independently produced solar energy that the states utilities are required to buy from 2.5% to 5.0 percent. &nbsp;The mechanism is called net metering. It did not even get out of committee.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s SF Chronicle calls this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2009\/09\/21\/EDE019QCBR.DTL\">a blow to Green Jobs<\/a>, obviously thinking of the manufacturers and installers of solar panels and associated equipment. &nbsp;I happen to agree. &nbsp;It is also a blow to every homeowner in the state and a move that would allow the mega-corporations to keep all of the Green $$ for themselves. <\/p>\n<p>I wonder what Van Jones thinks of this. &nbsp;It would seem to me that he would have a definite interest in expanding the opportunities. &nbsp;If the Democrats are not going to support controlling the ghg&#8217;s from electricity generation and providing the opportunity for there to actually be as many green jobs as he wants, there is another party that would welcome him to join. &nbsp;Greens are interested in Green Jobs, and in fixing climate change. &nbsp;We invite him over as the Democrats show that they just don&#8217;t get it&#8230; once more. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to hand it to Nancy Skinner (AD-14). &nbsp;She understands what it takes to get the public to be responsible for their own energy use and cost. &nbsp;Her sponsorship of AB560 would expand the amount of independently produced solar energy that the states utilities are required to buy from 2.5% to 5.0 percent. &nbsp;The mechanism is called net metering. It did not even get out of committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[7876,497,7877,1872],"class_list":["post-10124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-7876","tag-497","tag-7877","tag-1872"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Di","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}