$8 Billion for Y-Town

[Towntalk]

This would be a fantastic opportunity.

Several years ago another Brazilian company wanted to invest in Youngstown to build a plant here and employ local people, but they couldn't get the support of the powers that be, and we lost out.

My chief concerns are the naysayers and the unions that are so full of their own self interest that they couldn't care less about anything else unless they can have absolute control and the final say on everything to the exclusion of everything and everyone else.

This has been a problem that we have yet to resolve, and until the people of the valley rise up with one voice and tell these folks that we'll take it no longer, they'll keep chasing opportunities away from the valley.

Once this opportunity does come here, I'd like to see people by the thousands gather downtown in a rally that would shake the naysayers and unions from the tips of their heads to the soles of their feet, letting them know once and for all that they no longer have any say in our future.

[irishbobcat]

Could the Mahoning Valley Use 8 Billion Dollars?

May 20, 2008

Would the city of Youngstown like to be handed a check for 8 BILLION DOLLARS?

Spanish power company Iberdrola, the world's largest renewable energy operator, said Sunday it plans to invest eight billion dollars (5.1 billion euros) in the United States between 2008 and 2010.

The Bilbao-based firm is aiming to have a 15 percent share of the wind power market in the US by 2010, it added in a statement.
It had a wind power production capacity of 2,400 megawatts in the US at the end of March and it expects to reach 3,600 megawatts by the end of the year, the statement added.

Iberdrola chairman Ignacio Sanchez Galan has said he considers the US as the company's most exciting growth market.

The US, which uses roughly one-quarter of the world's crude oil, is seen as a promising market for renewable energy sources as concerns over climate change and the rising price of oil boost demand for alternatives to fossil fuels.

As the Independent Green Party Candidate, I would work to bring such renewable energy companies into the 60th district to bring investment, blue-collar jobs, high-tech jobs, and people back to the Mahoning Valley.

One only has to pull up to a gas station these days to see the that the US is a very gold mine for renewable energy manufacturing jobs and companies. It's time we had a state representative who has the drive, desire, and motivation to bring such jobs to our poor, working, and middle class.

These jobs are coming to America. Why Not Youngstown? And if not now, when?

Dennis Spisak-Independent Green Party Candidate for State Representative-60th District

Campaign web-site: Http://votespisak.tripod.com

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