{"id":44244,"date":"2009-11-10T16:45:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T21:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.instituteforenergyresearch.org\/?p=4536"},"modified":"2009-11-10T16:45:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T21:45:40","slug":"top-secret-%e2%80%9cgreen-jobs%e2%80%9d-would-not-exist-without-massive-taxpayer-subsidies-corporate-handouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/44244","title":{"rendered":"Top Secret: \u201cGreen Jobs\u201d Would Not Exist Without Massive Taxpayer Subsidies, Corporate Handouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unsustainable, taxpayer-funded “green jobs” focus of Senate Finance hearing today<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Washington,\u00a0DC<\/strong> \u2013 As part of the ongoing efforts in the US Senate to enact sweeping, energy-rationing legislation, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing today entitled “Climate Change Legislation: Considerations for Future Jobs<\/em>.” Following the hearing, Thomas J. Pyle, president of the non-partisan, market-oriented Institute for Energy Research (IER), issued this statement:<\/p>\n

“There is perhaps nothing more misleading surrounding the ongoing global warming debate than claims that cap-and-trade legislation will be a jobs boon and will spur economic activity. Look no further than the\u00a0DeSoto\u00a0Solar\u00a0Center\u00a0in\u00a0Florida\u00a0– a Florida Power and Light installation. On his recent visit, President Obama touted the center as the \u2018largest solar field in the\u00a0United States.\u2019 However, the president failed to mention that the panels and other items were all manufactured abroad. The solar cells came from the\u00a0Philippines; the steel mountings from\u00a0Canada; the electric boxes from\u00a0Germany. And how many \u2018green jobs\u2019 have been created there? Two full-time employees, six part-time groundskeepers that will work one week a month during the rainy season.<\/p>\n

“Cap and trade backers often cite European countries, like\u00a0Spain\u00a0and\u00a0Germany, as a model for the\u00a0US\u00a0follow. Yet both of these nations have failed miserably at delivering affordable and reliable energy and creating jobs.\u00a0Spain\u2019s government has committed more than\u00a0$753,000 per \u2018green job\u2019 over the past 9 years.\u00a0And in\u00a0Germany, per worker annual taxpayer subsidies have reached $240,000. Beware of the politician promising you a green job in one hand because he is pick-pocketing you with the other.<\/p>\n

“Washington\u00a0must craft comprehensive energy policies that do not empower Congress or bureaucrats to determine which energy forms win or lose in the market. Cap and trade aims to increase the cost of our most affordable, abundant and reliable energy forms, including coal, oil and natural gas. With unemployment now at a 26-year high, raising energy costs across the board and making it more difficult for us to compete in the global economy is not the right solution to help put Americans back to work.”<\/p>\n

READ MORE<\/strong>: Key experts from a recent\u00a0Washington Post<\/em><\/a> article entitled \u201cPainting a street green hasn’t stimulated one new job<\/strong>\u201d:<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Baltimore, the 300 block of East 23 1\/2 Street is getting patched up in time for winter. One economic stimulus program is paying to insulate 11 rental rowhouses, another is paying for furnaces and a third is covering the cost for reflective roofs to be installed by prison inmates in a job-training program.<\/p>\n

The block is part of one of the biggest initiatives ever undertaken by the federal government, a nationwide push to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. But as the national unemployment rate crosses into the double digits and Republicans question the stimulus program’s impact, the work on East 23 1\/2 — even with all of its activity — has so far\u00a0not produced a single job.<\/span><\/p>\n

For additional information, please contact Patrick Creighton<\/a>, 202-621-2947, or Laura Henderson<\/a>, 202-621-2951.<\/p>\n

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