If it takes a lot more people to produce a lot less electricity, is that a good thing?

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[European Union's Climate Action Commissioner, Connie Hedegaard] says the U.S. need only look to the EU to see that it is in their best interest to pass a bill. "If you do this intelligently, it will lead to job creation," she said. "Today, Germany has more jobs in renewables than in coal and nuclear combined – very different from the way it used to be…We can actually prove that it is good business to do this."

The question the U.S. needs to ask itself, she said, is "Do you want to be part of this or not? Do you want to be a leader or be left behind?"

[If Germany gets 75% of its electricity from coal and nukes, and another 12% from gas, why does it take so many people to produce some of the remainder?]

Germany obtains one quarter of its electricity from nuclear energy, using 17 reactors.
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Coal provides about half of the country's electricity. Gas supplied 12%, wind 6% in 2007.