Energy Secretary Granholm on Biden Killing Coal Jobs: They Can ‘Mine the Critical Materials that Go

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Energy Secretary Granholm on Biden Killing Coal Jobs: They Can ‘Mine the Critical Materials that Go Into Batteries’

Pam Key 3 Mar 2021

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm (D) said Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that coal miners whose jobs are phased out can “mine the critical materials that go into batteries” in a clean energy economy.

Co-host Meghan McCain said, “I thought President Biden was a little tone-deaf when he told coal miners to simply learn to code. John Kerry made a similar comment saying miners could pivot to building solar panels. These just aren’t options for most workers, and these employment retraining programs have a really poor record of leading to actual jobs. What do you say to people worried that the president’s policies will make it hard for them to put food on the table, and what do you say to people that will lose their jobs who think that being told to code is insulting?”

Granholm said, “Well, I mean, first of all, if they want to code, of course, that opportunity should be made available to them. However, there are so many jobs in this clean energy space, Meghan, that have skills that are with the skills that they used in previous jobs. So for example, you know, we want to be able to make sure that we mine the critical materials that go into batteries, and so we should have miners have that opportunity, or to make sure that the pipe fitters and the plumbers and the electricians are going to be installing clean energy. Many countries are powered by the heat that’s that underneath your feet in the Earth called geothermal. In the U.S., we don’t do much of that. It’s clean and renewable electricity. We should be able to put people to work doing things that are similar to the skills that they had before and deploying this clean energy, and there are millions of more jobs that will be created in this clean energy space than there have been in the fossil fuel sector.”

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[PeteS in CA]

Let them eat cake ... hundreds of miles from home ... using very different skills and equipment they haven't learned.

This exemplifies why remote bureaucrats should have zero authority.

[skeeter]

At least he didn’t advise miners to go into computer programming, as usual.

[Smokin Joe]

Because driving one of these



Is just the same as running one of these:



Right?

[Smokin Joe]

Let them eat cake ... hundreds of miles from home ... using very different skills and equipment they haven't learned.

This exemplifies why remote bureaucrats should have zero authority.

It's what you get when people who have never done much are telling those who have what to do.

What about the pipeline guys?

Who is going to reclaim all those land mines in West Virginia?

[christian]

Like the oil industry, they can all go to Wyoming and work for the Russians mining uranium.  Of course with so many people desperate for a job, it might well pay below minimum wage. 
The main thing is Trump was defeated, so this doesn't even matter,does it ?

[Hoodat]

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm (D) said Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that coal miners whose jobs are phased out can “mine the critical materials that go into batteries”

So she suggests they move to China and work in the neodymium mines?  Idiot.

[jafo2010]

I would say, like Joe did, they can get coding jobs, but that is a lie.  Biden intends to dramatically up the number of H1-b Visas to further displace Americans from jobs and provide jobs largely for low cost labor from mostly India.  So, his suggestion of coding jobs for miners was just one more chronic lie by Wrecking Ball Joe.

[Sled Dog]

I remember, after Reagan won the Cold War and the Pot-Smoking Draft Dodging Rapist President was happily shredding the military that Jane Harmon, a Rodent Rep from CA, told the laid off aerospace workers in her district that they could use their skills acquired making state of the art fighter aircraft to make city buses.

Rodents never ever change in their contempt for the people they lord it over.

[Hoodat]

I remember, after Reagan won the Cold War and the Pot-Smoking Draft Dodging Rapist President was happily shredding the military that Jane Harmon, a Rodent Rep from CA, told the laid off aerospace workers in her district that they could use their skills acquired making state of the art fighter aircraft to make city buses.

Rodents never ever change in their contempt for the people they lord it over.

And Jane Harmon was actually considered to be a Conservative, for a Democrat.  She was eventually pushed out by the Pelosi wing.

[Cyber Liberty]

And Jane Harmon was actually considered to be a Conservative, for a Democrat.  She was eventually pushed out by the Pelosi wing.

I always thought that was a personal problem.

[Hoodat]

Pelosi denied Harman the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee, for what Pelosi characterized as "ideological reasons".  In 2009 (under Obama), wiretaps conducted in 2005 were 'leaked' to the press, casting Harman in a negative light.  It was all a hit job orchestrated by Pelosi as retaliation against Harman for supporting the Bush war on terrorism.

There is a special place in hell already set up for Nancy Pelosi.