Oh My God, They Admitted It
Posted November 12th, 2008 at 11.00am in Energy and Environment.
The environmental left spews so many lies it is difficult picking out which is the most pernicious. But considering how the economy is everyone’s number one concern right now, the left’s promise to save the economy with “green collar jobs” is definitely the most salient one out there right now.
The lie goes something like this: “The Obama-Biden comprehensive New Energy for America plan will help create five million new jobs by strategically investing $150 billion over the next ten years to catalyze private efforts to build a clean energy future.” Obama’s plan to build “a clean energy future” reads an awful lot like the union/enviro backed Apollo Alliance plan to “build America’s 21st century clean energy economy” and create “5 million jobs.” The only difference is that while Obama says he can create 5 million new “green collar jobs” with just $150 billion, The Apollo Alliance says it will take $500 billion to create the same 5 million jobs.
When asked to explain the discrepancy why Obama claims he can create the same 5 million jobs with $350 billion less money, Apollo Alliance co-director (and self pro-claimed coiner of the “green collar jobs” term) Kate Gordon told the Wall Street Journal, “Honestly, it’s just to inspire people.”
Got that? The enviro/left is openly admitting that all of their green collar jobs numbers have no relation to reality and are only spewed to “inspire people.” As we’ve explained before:
The lie at the core of the green-collar myth is that new jobs are being created. There is no new employment, just a transfer of employment from the “non-green” sector to the “green sector” — and often at a net loss of jobs. If regulations force power companies to forgo natural gas for solar power, then sure, the people who manufacture and install the solar panels will have “new” jobs, but those who mined and distributed the natural gas will be out of jobs. And then there are the higher energy costs. Carbon taxes and renewable energy mandates do not create new energy: they simply drive up the price of existing supplies. And higher energy prices means less jobs for everyone.
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November 12, 2008 Barb -mn writes:
Whatever mankind has discovered in this world, is in this world to discover. As most people know the government’s will to destroy capitalism is by fearing the people and their children of what the government calls “global warming” without factual evidence. Mandating unnecessary steps to diminish prosperity is as low and greedy as a government can get in a FREE SOCIETY.
Productive use of natural resources for the productive survival of mankind is not KILLING ANY ANIMAL OR HUMAN and shows NO EVIDENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING. For whatever destructive use of natural resources (those who choose war and the weapons to conduct on the innocent, etc) or defying nature (cloning, etc), has, is and will continue to destroy the earth and all that lives as there is factual evidence of this. It is the government against the people as the government thinks they speak for the people yet the people only hear from the mouths of government. Quit wasting the needless time and money.
Necessary mandates already in place before the government’s global warming uprise, are emitting less the pollution (factual evidence) and is all that is needed. People create much better jobs then the government of waste and no integrity. Government, your job is defined in the constitution stay out of private, honest businesses. You are overstaffed and factual evidence proves your worthlessness.