benefits of lower costs of doing business and reduced household energy expenditures.These advantages are manifested in job growth, income growth, and of course, a cleaner environment."

Are you guys just against everything but lower taxes and ….. I can't think what else you are "for".

Myth 1: You say the concept of green jobs "has specifics" and then immediately use the term "generally"…your statement itself is contradictory from which the assumption can be made that your logic is also.

Myth 2: You are correct that consumption is not the sole factor, but without it, there is no need for production nor the jobs it creates leading to even less consumption and so on. Pick up an econ textbook. A massive investment in bureaucracy at the cost of jobs creating products for which there is a demand eventually results in a debtor state which has to import everything it needs and, oh wait, we're already at that point.

Myth 3: You don't have to prove that the models are unreliable. If the assumptions are questionable, so is the model. Faulty assumptions don't turn into good models. Read a logic textbook.

Myth 4: You have this backwards. Green jobs, or non-green jobs for that matter, do not encourage the development of new technologies. We didn't have millions of people sitting around in factories which encouraged others to invent the computer and other technology products…the development of the products came first. The technology creates the jobs, not the other way around.

Myth 5: There is a difference between technologies that exist and those that don't. Learn it.

Myth 6: Amazing. You simultaneously demonstrated a lack of knowledge of capitalism, competition, free markets, government efficiency and consumer behavior all in once sentence. Kudos. Government mandate of production is notoriously inefficient, wasteful and corrupt. Read some history books, start with the USSR. The government does not create anything, much less superior products. The free market and the profit motive encourage innovation. But I somehow suspect that my use of the term "profit motive" will be offensive to you.

Myth 7: If the government mandates production then there is no such thing as a free market. As far as it being "hard to monopolize green products" try reading a book about Archer Daniels Midland.

But based on the totality of your comments, I'd say you don't read much except left wing blogs or have logical and informed discussion with friends who are like-minded and, therefore, neither logical nor informed.

Let's just head toward a green economy and it will happen before we know it. And we still might not know exactly what a "green" jobs really is

Sean
http://www.greencollareconomy.com

Conn Carroll
Late last year we called into question the credibility of a Center for American Progress “study” purporting to show how how many “green collar jobs” $100 billion in government spending on “green investments…..

This is a marketing scam to force training and licensing onto the public to create another cost structure to industry.

What ever millions is being spent to go green, is a rouse to infiltrate the work force with more regulation and meaningless expensive training and certification to what is now considered common practice and knowledge.

Can you smell the union comrades influence??

We are seeing a complete betrayal of ethics and an infiltration of marketing scam artists to enroll Americans into drones of the state, at their own expense.

This is surely an infiltration of communist ideas being sold as ecology, energy or stimulus; what aver label works for them. This is becoming cancerous.

They got the name right. Going green is the government/unionizes, cashing in on civilization by creating fears and offering security from those same man made fears from your pay check to theirs. All of it disguised as needed to make the world a better place.