Green Jobs Fail

I have been one of the few people in Las Vegas who doubted the green energy job creation and green energy being the savior or the economy from Day 1. Crybaby Harry Reid, Shelly Berkley, Clark County Commission, Las Vegas Sun including the editor, Brian The "Coward" Greenspun, Democrats in general and several Republican RINO's all touted green energy and it being the new job creator. It's a stupid idea because people don't want to spend more money to use less energy. Why do you think we see more SUV's and trucks than green cars like the Prius? People just don't want green energy but Crybaby Reid and President Obama want to force you to use it and most Americans have rebelled at that policy.
Today from the New York Times: Mr. Reed called the opening of the new headquarters of SolFocus, which produces large, free-standing solar panels, an “enormously important” development for the city’s economy.
“Clean technology is the next wave of innovation that Silicon Valley needs to capture,” the mayor said, noting that the San Jose City Council had committed to increasing the number of “green jobs” in the city to 25,000 by 2022. San Jose currently has 4,350 such jobs, according to city officials.
But SolFocus assembles its solar panels in China, and the new San Jose headquarters employs just 90 people.
In the Bay Area as in much of the country, the green economy is not proving to be the job-creation engine that many politicians envisioned. President Obama once pledged to create five million green jobs over 10 years. Gov. Jerry Brown promised 500,000 clean-technology jobs statewide by the end of the decade. But the results so far suggest such numbers are a pipe dream.
“I won’t say I’m not frustrated,” said Van Jones, an Oakland activist who served briefly as Mr. Obama’s green-jobs czar before resigning under fire after conservative critics said he had signed a petition accusing the Bush administration of deliberately allowing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a claim Mr. Jones denies.
A study released in July by the non-partisan Brookings Institution found clean-technology jobs accounted for just 2 percent of employment nationwide and only slightly more — 2.2 percent — in Silicon Valley. Rather than adding jobs, the study found, the sector actually lost 492 positions from 2003 to 2010 in the South Bay, where the unemployment rate in June was 10.5 percent.
Federal and state efforts to stimulate creation of green jobs have largely failed, government records show. Two years after it was awarded $186 million in federal stimulus money to weatherize drafty homes, California has spent only a little over half that sum and has so far created the equivalent of just 538 full-time jobs in the last quarter, according to the State Department of Community Services and Development.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/us/19bcgreen.html?_r=2
Even the very liberal NY Times is admitting that green energy has failed and it will continue to fail, especially if the government is involved.
If green energy become popular, there will be more companies out there willing to spend their own money. But when you play with government money, there is no real effort to make anything succeed.
President Obama and Crybaby Reid may be ahead of the times in green energy, but I doubt it because more oil is being found everyday. But Obama and Reid's focus on green energy has been a complete and total failure and in the process, they have hurt the economy and in the process, has cost people their jobs.