‘Green economy’ is a pipe dream




There is one little problem with Mike Weislk’s plea for “a new green economy.” There is no such thing.

While oil maybe dirty, it is the only viable way to run our cars and it employs tens of thousands of American workers. Germany tried a subsidized renewable energy policy. It was touted as “a jobs miracle,” and while failing miserably to produce jobs, it is now considered to have been both massively expensive and devoid of economic or environmental benefits.

When Mayor Villaraigosa speaks of “green jobs” he means free vocational training for gang bangers so they can learn to install solar panels in the homes of Californians who can’t afford them after finding employment with companies, most of whom already went bankrupt or were driven from the state by similarly delusional policies.

Wishful fantasies about “a green economy,” while a lovely thought, does not measure up to the kind of research standards we must demand when pondering a sea change for this state’s already failing economy. Assembly Bill 32 would cost California over a million more jobs without creating any new ones except for a handful of bureaucratic positions.

The cap and trade of AB32 at this point in time is sheer insanity. Nobody wishes to pollute, but we have to balance our environmental fervor with the need to support the citizens of California, not to mention millions of noncitizens that many of the same kooks who favor this bill tend to think we are also obliged to support.

California can not be all things to all people.
Larry Brown

Agoura Hills




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