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Friday, August 19, 2011
The Cost and Ineffectiveness Of "Green" Jobs
Without heavy subsidies and government coercion, green jobs and green products are little more than monuments to liberal-progressive egos. Government subsidies for green products and green jobs are hidden taxes that contribute to unemployment and stifle entrepreneurial innovation that will create real jobs.
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With this week’s bankruptcy filing, the great Evergreen Solar experiment is now officially a staggering failure, but the fantasy that the state can buy new jobs with a fat investment of taxpayer cash may live on.
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The Corbett administration is de-emphasizing renewable energy and energy conservation, eliminating programs created by previous Democratic and Republican administrations as it focuses on natural gas energy from booming Marcellus Shale.
Quietly but systematically, the administration has all but shut down the state Department of Environmental Protection’s Office of Energy and Technology Deployment—the state’s primary energy office—and removed directors and reassigned staff in the Office of Energy Management in the Department of General Services and the Governor’s Green Government Council.
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