Green Is the New Red: The High Cost of Green Jobs

摘要

In addition to renewable energy's anointment as our environmental savior, some renewable energy advocates, including President Obama, have touted the millions of new "green" jobs that will be created as a result. Thus, we are promised, renewable energy, as well as energy efficiency, will provide a "two-fer": a lower greenhouse gas environment and a healthier economy. Who knows, they may even, Zen-like, raise our collective consciousness. The fundamental problem with such promises is that, like all things that are "too good to be true," they are, too. Not for the first time, proponents of renewable energy as economic and energy salvation are ignoring basic economics.