commentary on "Obama on unemployment and energy" by Erich

Like you, I too worry about the plummeting unemployment rates and the extremely competitive job market that has developed. It scares the hell out of just about everyone. Established workers share in the worry and might ask themselves, “when will my job be removed because of financial implications?” Recently I learned about a new category of worker, the underemployed, that are also affected by the unemployment crisis. These are the workers who have been laid off and are rehired into positions which they are over qualified. For example, a 4 year Cornell College graduate who majored in Business might have to settle as a mail room associate, just for pay. However, no matter how much media attention the unemployment rates have received, it is very important that you brought it up. It reminds your audience, college students, to be aware of the jobs we have, or heads up for the ones who are looking. Yet, you also reminded us that their is a light at the end of the tunnel and Obama is carrying the torch. As you have noted, he is formulating a plan to recover 2 million jobs. What I would like to know is how? What kind of labor? In what area of employment? Hopefully, it involves harnessing energy and creating trash fuels. Another good addition is noting Obama's has plans to help in other areas too, like replacing insufficient light bulbs with the new energy saving ones, and his plan for educating youth about the internet. It leaves your audience on a good note.

Garbage into gas

Living in a generation striving for a “green” America, a few brave souls have been aiming to formulate a new shade of “green”, and might I suggest a murky shade of “green”. Although supported by a limited number of pioneering industries, future innovators have begun proposing initiatives to create motor fuel from garage. Fulcrum Bioenergy was reported in the Times to say, “it would start construction later this year on a $120 million dollar plant at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial center” and committing to “make 10.5 million gallons of ethanol a year from 90,000 tons of garbage.” These modern entrepreneurial corporations have envisioned something revolutionary to live up to. But hindering those aspirations is the uncertainty of who will fund the venture. It is really sad that potential corporations have “dreams may be bigger than their bank accounts” and also shouldn’t just count on hopes“ They are counting on billions in taxpayer subsidies”. For this reason federal government is not the most charitable because most of the companies have only the potential to create garbage fuels. Little has been achieved as far as its completion. However if the company has produced a successful batch it must next develop a cost efficient method of producing mass quantities, meant to reach automobile gas tanks everywhere. Yet, the federal government has shown a spirited desire to help get plants off the ground by offering grants.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/business/24fuel.html?pagewanted=1