"A new report from Scotland found that renewable energy kills 3.7 traditional jobs for every “green” job it creates. Wind power mandates also cost British energy consumers an extra $1.8 billion in higher electricity costs in 2009-2010. Rebellion is in the air, and belief in dangerous manmade global warming has plummeted." townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2011/04/16/the_us_should_follow_europes_lead
The rest of Europe too is finally figuring out that the siren song of green this and that is leading them rapidly down the path of economic obsolescence and popsicles instead of people and they are changing course. Take the Brits for example.
The UK just shivered through its coldest December-January since 1683. People literally froze to death because, among other things, when temperatures really crater the wind goes calm and all those impressive banks of massive windmills that the Brits rely on for a chunk of their electric energy quit turning. As a consequence, the British government is turning away from all the trendy little greenie energy projects and ramping up investment in big projects that will keep people alive and the wheels of industry turning.
All across Europe other countries are following suit - France, Germany, Poland, etc. France is even talking the "c" word - coal! But not here in the US. President Obama is characteristically leading the way with European ideas that are now out-of-date: let's "lead the way" with an "Apollo 13 program" for green energy projects! For truth-in-advertising purposes, a subtitle should be added "Let's freeze our buns off like the Europeans did when we get a really nasty winter!" How about we instead go where they are now and develop our native energy resources in a big way and both stay cozy in the winter, create lots of new jobs, and lessen our dependence on foreign oil? Now that's a novel thought.
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