US Losing Edge in the Clean Energy Sector

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http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/39881/

ASHINGTON—In 2000, the United States manufactured close to half of the world’s supply of solar cells, while today its contribution to the world’s clean energy market has dwindled to around 5 percent.

According to testimony before a July U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, today there are only four American companies among the top 30 global solar, wind, and advanced battery manufacturers supplying the world’s clean energy products.

“With clean energy manufacturing increasingly shifting abroad, it’s little surprise that the U.S. is running a clean energy trade deficit,” said Devon Swezey, project director at the Breakthrough Institute, before the committee.

No recent figures were provided by the hearing participants during testimony, but in 2008, the U.S. clean energy trade deficit leaped to $6 billion, increasing by 1,400 percent since 2003.

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Thank you Bushies, Reagan and the asshole GOP

Fuck

You

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