“Green” Jobs Hurt the Economy
Part of the president’s plan to save the economy is to create more green jobs. While I am a non-believer in the idea that man is causing the earth to warm, and I am a non-believer in the idea that the earth is even warming at all, I never had a problem with the idea of green jobs. My problem with the global warming hoax is in the taxes, restrictions, government control, and global socialization that is behind the whole movement.
While I believe that drilling for oil in this country is a necessity, and should be priority number one, to help end dependency on foreign oil I don’t have a problem with alternative energy such as wind and solar and the jobs that these fields could open up. (Ethanol, that’s another story.)
I always believed that if there were more sources of energy that this would create more jobs and help the economy. It seems to make sense, but a study done in Spain (which is the country that the president used as his model to outline his green plan) shows us that that is not the case. Green solutions actually cost more jobs than they create. For every job that the alternative energy market creates an average of 2.2 jobs are lost. And to top it off only 10% of the jobs created are permanent jobs.
It appears as if, much like the global warming hoax, the green-alternative-energy-as-a-means-to-create-jobs-and-stimulate-the-economy-idea is a hoax also. Perhaps hoax isn’t the right word in this case, perhaps it is just a lack of understanding on how these new jobs would affect the old jobs and the economy in general.
In the end it appears as though creating more green jobs will be a net drain on the economy and not the stimulus that we were presented with. Considering my stance on global warming this means that there is absolutely no reason to continue with the idea of opening up this new job market.
America's Watchtower 
I still want to reduce our imports of foreign oil. Why should we continue sending billions a year to, as Bush would say, “people who don’t like us very much?” Right now, our town fathers are fighting tooth and nail against a biomass plant that wants to build here. It would creat 40 jobs running it, at least 200 jobs cutting and trucking the fuel wood, and pay between 1 and 2 million dollars a year in property taxes. I am spending almost as much time working on getting that plant as I do on my blog, and THAT is a lot of time. You are right when looking at wind and solar however. They create very few jobs.
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Agreed.
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When people want green cars, green cars will be produced; when it cheaper to produce electricy with wind that with coal, that will happen. When we can pump crude from the ground or off the ocean bed cheaper than we can get it from the middle east, that too will happen. Our free economy has served us well most of the time, with a few bumps along the way. To toss it away so that politicians can plan, regulate and control the means of production and distribution is absolutely nuts. Anyone, anyone that proposes such a thing is not only a socialist, but is un-american. These systems have been tried and failed repeatly all over the world. In most cases the governments trying to operate under such restrictive systems have fail themselves and in those places where a mild form of socialism hangs on—it does just that, little or no growth in the economy and a slow path to failure such as western Europe. Our system is the best in the world and these new social engineers want not to just change our economic system—that is just the beginning. They want to regulate our lives,our childrens lives, and our very future. They dream of Utopia, not a Utopia for themselves, but rather their view of Utopia for others. All men dream, and many dream of a better life for themselves and their family. But these socialist Utopians dream of whats best for others–therein lies the rub. I want whats best for me and mine and they, they know whats best for me and others. The difference is clear and the choice stark.
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Very well said!
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Just noticed you had put me on your blogroll, thanks. I had added you to mine a few day ago. I used to leave comments on your blog from my site at Penny Patch, I just recently started the Totus blog it is a mirror of my others, but will eventually stand alone. Again thanks. I’m a Mississippi redneck and retired history teacher. Big LSU and Southern Miss. fan.
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No problem, and thank you.
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I figured this would be a pipe dream, just look at what happened with the biofuel, ethanol. It cost the big corn producng states and their farmers more money and the whole system of corn as feed and food got messed up. Drill, baby, drill!
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