Henry Payne for January 28, 2021

Yeah, we lose some temporary jobs in an industry that is already being phased out…

RW Meme for the Day…late as usual with Payne.

Such biting commentary. /S

All 50 of them

Payne probably has money invested in fossil fuels and can’t think of how to get money from clean air.

When the only tool you have is a hammer………………

It is SO touching that Trump Disciples like Payne are suddenly concerned about ‘jobs’.

Seriously, the only concern about the oil pipeline for Payne, Lisa, and all the rest, is the handful of jobs that might be created and NOT the bonuses and total compensation of the CEOs of the patriotic multinational oil corporations?

Especially the ones that pay zero taxes?

Henry loves his gasoline powered vroom-vroom vehicles, so of course he thinks that cutting down on oil use is a bad idea.

In the United States, more people were employed in solar power last year than in generating electricity through coal, gas and oil energy combined. According to a new report from the U.S. Department of Energy, solar power employed 43 percent of the Electric Power Generation sector’s workforce in 2016, while fossil fuels combined accounted for just 22 percent.

Just under 374,000 people were employed in solar energy, according to the report, while coal, gas and oil power generation combined had a workforce of slightly more than 187,000.

Forbes, Jan 2017.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/01/25/u-s-solar-energy-employs-more-people-than-oil-coal-and-gas-combined-infographic/

Renewable energy will provide jobs. They may not be the temporary pipe welding jobs which pay well because of a lack of welders, but there will be employment for some time. And there will be employment for transmission line building and maintenance.

Mr. Payne, GM announced today that they are not going to be making fossil fuel cars in 14 years…

General Motors to eliminate gasoline and diesel light-duty cars and SUVs by 2035 https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/01/28/general-motors-electric/

or was this due to Biden strong arming them?

How many jobs would that pipeline ACTUALLY add to the economy? Less than two dozen. Go ahead and look it up: There’s very little work to do on a functional pipeline. Unless you’re counting the high probability of a spill…

Payne finally got the right wing talking point.

Total failure covid spreader Trump ended his admin with 2 million less jobs than when he started.

Must be the stupid Republican meme of the week.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/politifact/article/fact-check-biden-politifact-keystone-xl-pipe-oil-15899519.php

https://www.khou.com/article/news/verify/keystone-pipeline-jobs-loss-fact-check/285-91332c5a-265e-46b4-878e-9fd23f8d6258

https://factcheck.afp.com/posts-inflate-job-losses-bidens-keystone-pipeline-reversal

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/26/ted-cruz-pumps-up-keystone-job-numbers/

Why tell the truth when a lie is easier, then draw a stupid cartoon to back up that lie.

Seems all Henry’s cartoons are starting to look similar. Like cookie cutter houses in a housing project.

Some day, Payne may surprise us with a meaningful cartoon … This wasn’t that day!

Whoa! Does the outfall of this threaten the tabulating card, gas station attendant, and floor mounted start button production jobs?

Payne, why do you support a pipeline that crosses the U.S. with all it’s known pollutions, and is only for Canada’s use? Don’t you and your ilk care about the U.S. at all?

Everyone is talking as if we are going to wake up tomorrow morning and have the entire country converted to renewable energy, and a bunch of oil field and coal mine workers standing around with nothing to do. It’s a process. The coal mines and oil fields will have to hire fewer people as we convert to renewable. There will be more jobs in those fields, but the guy who has been in the coal mine for 20 years is probably not going to be a top candidate for those jobs. However, his son or daughter could. I would be willing to pay you $100 for every coal miner who can honestly say that his highest hope for his children was that they would make their livings crawling around in a hole in the ground, getting filthy and risking cave ins, anyway.

Canadian jobs, that is

Facts, Henry, facts. You’ve been pandering to the tRumplicans so long you no longer understand the concept.