The need to go green is increasing every day, and that is why an energy official says that Oklahoma educators need to train future workers in this emerging career field.

More consumers are shifting their electric production use from natural gas to wind power, thus creating manufacturing jobs because you need to build poles, turbines, and blades for wind power to work. This in turn also creates new technician jobs to operate the wind power turbines.

Ned Ross of FPL Energy in Texas says that his company is struggling to find those technicians, and that’s why he is working with a Texas community college to create turbine technician programs. Ross hopes others will follow suit.

Mariannette Miller-Meeks, a Republican running for Congress, called for a federal-state effort to build several wind-farm-to-transmission-grid access lines, something similar to building an interstate highway system, and says that weaning the country from imported oil would reduce imports by 38% and save the nation $300 billion a year at current fuel prices.

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