Don’t pretend green jobs will save us

Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun (Australia)
"Time to call out Greens leader Bob Brown for his wild claims that whacking the country with a huge carbon tax will create a ”green jobs revolution”. Green policies in fact tend to kill jobs, not create them, not least by diverting huge amounts of taxes from more productive parts of the economy:

The Obama Administration channeled $90 billion of the $870 billion dollar stimulus package towards the new green economy.

The hope was that a national move from fossil energy to green energy would not only be good, long term, for the environment, but that the transition could also be a jobs’ driver, which would help resuscitate the overall economy.

But two years into Obama’s administration, the White House has reported it’s helped create 224,500 green jobs, far short of the 5 million it had openly predicted.

That’s $400,000 of government help for each green job.

Even then, that’s cheaper than the green jobs “created” by Spain’s mad flirtation with green power, that’s brought that country to the brink of bankruptcy:

The study calculates that since 2000 Spain spent €571,138 ($1.03 million) to create each “green job”, including subsidies of more than €1 million ($1.8 million) per wind industry job… The study calculates that the programs creating those jobs also resulted in the destruction of nearly 110,000 jobs elsewhere in the economy, or 2.2 jobs destroyed for every “green job” created.... "