BOHICA!! I won’t go into a description of the nomenclature on that one just now. Suffice that it means you’ve been had again and again and again. With magnificent disregard for reality the evil empire has struck again and voted itself fifty billion dollars worth of non-existent money.
BOHICA!! I won’t go into a description of the nomenclature on that one just now. Suffice that it means you’ve been had again and again and again. With magnificent disregard for reality the evil empire has struck again and voted itself fifty billion dollars worth of non-existent money.
“Obama and congressional proponents of [cap-and-trade] had for months tried to repackage it as a jobs bill (all the green jobs from the new clean-energy economy) and an energy-independence bill (cap-and-trade will stick it to OPEC),” explains Heritage energy policy analyst Ben Lieberman. Unfortunately, they’re back at it. Only this time, this scheme is now presented as the answer to the oil spill, and it comes in the form of a slightly watered-down version of cap-and-trade.
Last month Politico reported that the alternative energy sector had upped its lobbying efforts from $2.4 million in 1998 to $30 million in 2009. So what is the renewable power industry getting for its investment? Studies like this one by Navigant Consulting, Inc. for the Renewable Electricity Standard-Alliance for Jobs. The RES Alliance study found that “that a 25% by 2025 national RES would result in 274,000 more renewable energy jobs over no-national RES policy.”
