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A Sad Green Story
The period around 2003 was the golden spring of green technology. John McCain and Joe Lieberman introduced a bipartisan bill to curb global warming. I got my first ride in a Prius from a conservative foreign policy hawk who said that these new technologies were going to help us end our dependence on Middle Eastern despots. You’d go to Silicon Valley and all the venture capitalists, it seemed, were rushing into clean tech.
From that date on the story begins to get a little sadder.
Al Gore released his movie “An Inconvenient Truth” in 2006. The global warming issue became associated with the highly partisan former vice president. Gore mobilized liberals, but, once he became the global warming spokesman, no Republican could stand shoulder to shoulder with him and survive. Any slim chance of building a bipartisan national consensus was gone.
Then, in 2008, Barack Obama seized upon green technology and decided to make it the centerpiece of his jobs program. During his presidential campaign he promised to create five million green tech jobs. Renewable energy has many virtues, but it is not a jobs program. Obama’s stimulus package set aside $90 billion for renewable energy loans and grants, but the number of actual jobs created has been small. Articles began to appear in the press of green technology grants that were costing $2 million per job created. The program began to look like a wasteful disappointment.
h/t Groucho Marxist
Tim
October 21st, 2012
“A Sad Green Story?”
Most significant heist since the Great Train Robbery!
Left Coast Dan
October 21st, 2012
Coming from an ardent leftie/greenie (see next to last paragraph) makes it even more compelling.
serfer62
October 21st, 2012
It never was viable.
“…these new technologies were going to help us end our dependence on Middle oil” while the discovery of Petroleum (its not fossil fuel) continues to increase. We now have more oil then the entire ME!
What is the govorment doing? For instance CA could pay off its debt & still have money with their oil reserves.
Joe
October 21st, 2012
Mark Levin summed it all up in one word: PLUNDER.
Unneutral
October 21st, 2012
Too many dipshits still believe in unicorn farts and kumbaya.
kvn
October 21st, 2012
Great Green Erergy Swindle
"That Guy"
October 21st, 2012
If you want to see what “green” energy does to the job market, one only has to look at what happened in Spain, where for every “green” energy job that has been “created”, largely through massive subsidy, 2.2 jobs were lost in other sectors, mostly from productive parts of their economy.
Yet Obama has sung the praises of Spain’s “green” energy program on many occasions.
Boobie the Rocket Dog
October 21st, 2012
And the beautiful, green hills of Bonnie Bell County Tyrone in Ireland are despoiled with PROPELLERS.
donde
October 21st, 2012
David Brooke blows, he has to be in full denial that the love of his life(shit for brains but creased pants – Obama) has turned out to be just another empty suit/chair.
Nothing has more clean, portable, cheap energy than a gallon of gasoline.
possibly a trillion dollars wasted into “green” energy and now we’re back to fossil fuels.
Menderman
October 21st, 2012
By some odd coincidence, I got an e-mail from Barry telling me all his crap is 30% off. The sitting President, the One, the most loved ever to exist in this country has to beg people to buy his election crap…ain’t that a sign of how sorry that asswipe is?
and if you want to have dinner with Menderman, send me $3 bucks to mr.menderman@gmail.com, and maybe you will get the chance. After 10,000 of you send me noney, I will grace one of you with my prescence for 20 minutes….and if 20,000 of you send me money, Menderwoman will join us…but beware…you have to pay for the meal.
Joe
October 22nd, 2012
Golly, Menderman, as I head for Wendy’s with my $3, I’ll be thinking of ya and wishing ya the best. Hope you find some takers cause they’re out there.