The costs of green jobs
People like to tout how many new jobs these days are "green" -- isn't that so cool!
Turns out it's not that cool when you look at the big picture.
From the
Brookings Institute:
Sizing the Clean Economy: A National and Regional Green Jobs Assessment
As a matter of aspiration, no swath of the economy has been more widely celebrated as a source of economic renewal and potential job creation. Yet, the clean economy remains an enigma: hard to assess. Not only do �green� or �clean� activities and jobs related to environmental aims pervade all sectors of the U.S. economy; they also remain tricky to define and isolate�and count.
The clean economy has remained elusive in part because, in the absence of standard definitions and data, strikingly little is known about its nature, size, and growth at the critical regional level.
Seeking to help address these problems, the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings worked with Battelle�s Technology Partnership Practice to develop, analyze, and comment on a detailed database of establishment-level employment statistics pertaining to a sensibly defined assemblage of clean economy industries in the United States and its metropolitan areas.
By the numbers presented in the Report (from 2010):
2.7 Million Green Jobs total of which
20,680 are in BioFuels
29,531 in PhotoVoltaic and Thermal and
24,294 in Wind
The rest of the Green Jobs are in manufacturing, distribution, chemicals, agriculture, etc...
From the U.S. Department of Energy
Energy Information Administration
Direct Federal Financial Interventions and Subsidies in Energy in Fiscal Year 2010
This report responds to a November 2010 request to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) from U.S. Representatives Roscoe G. Bartlett, Marsha Blackburn, and Jason Chaffetz for an update to a 2008 report prepared by EIA that provided a snapshot of direct federal financial interventions and subsidies in energy markets in fiscal year (FY) 2007, focusing on subsidies to electricity production (Appendix A). As requested, this report updates the previous report using FY 2010 data and is limited to subsidies that are provided by the federal government, provide a financial benefit with an identifiable federal budget impact, and are specifically targeted at energy markets. Subsidies to federal electric utilities, in the way of financial support, are also included, as requested. These criteria do exclude some subsidies beneficial to energy sector activities (see �Not All Subsidies Impacting the Energy Sector Are Included in this Report�) and this should be kept in mind when comparing this report to other studies that may use narrower or more expansive inclusion criteria.
Let's look at some numbers:
$6,644,000,000 for BioFuels
$1,134,000,000 for Solar and
$4,986,000,000 for Wind
A little bit of Math (ooooo scary!) yields
$321,277 of our Tax Dollars for every BioFuel's job
$38,400 of our Tax Dollars for every Solar job and
$205,236 of our Tax Dollars for every Wind job.
The numbers are there at the links I provided -- look them up yourself if you want.
I have said it before and will say it again. There is no Green Energy. It is a cruel scam, a hoax, a myth right up there with pink unicorns. Yes, you can get energy from the Sun and the Wind but the costs are prohibitive and the manufacturing processes used to make the solar panels result in toxins that need careful disposal. Fine enough in the US but that drives the costs up so our Tax Dollars get shipped over to China where they just dump any and all waste into an open sewer.
The "greens" are such hypocrites -- they go on and on about saving the planet but they suffer from a major cognitive dissonance when their beloved solar panels are manufactured in an industrial wasteland in China. They only care about their own backyard -- the planet is just a metaphysical rallying point for their religion and not anything to really be concerned about.
Retards... (And I apologize to all the wonderful real retards out there -- I do not mean to paint you with the same toxic brush as I am painting the greens.)
Posted by DaveH at August 26, 2012 9:14 PM