Energy resources
Sir,—Oliver Riddell (“The Press,” August 15) suggests that the loss of employment opportunities would limit the Government’s willingness to slow the extravagant power plan. However, because the cost of establishing a permanent job in the electrical generating industry ii so high ($250,000 in the United States, prbbably comparable here), more jobs would be created if the Government was to spend that money in almost any other way. In “Don’t Pay Taxes,” Wayne Innes says: “Most businesses could be set up . . . for less than half the cost of a new four-cylinder car.” If the Government was prepared to give grants of, say, $lOOO to $5OOO each, to individuals and co-operative groups to set up small productive enterprises, $250,000 could create work for about 80 people. Such enterprises may even absorb part of the present embarrassing surplus in generating capacity.— Yours, etc.,
T. N. D. ANDERSON. August 16, 1978.
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