Re: [asa] Spain: Green Jobs Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Real Jobs, Decades in Lost Opportunity

Hi Janice,

1) Exactly how many US jobs have been lost to Asia because of free-market economics?

2) Does the fact that the Institute for Energy Research receives funding from Exxon mean anything? <http://tinyurl.com/cxlxvy>

3) What was it Adam Smith said about incredulity and do you expect to develop some any time soon?

Blessings,
Murray

Janice Matchett wrote:
>
>
> B.O. has cited Spain as an example for the USA to follow. :)
>
> * Running of the Bull: U.S. “Green Jobs” Rhetoric Runs Smack Dab Into
> Hard Lessons From Spain
> <http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2219568/posts>**instituteforenergyresearch
> ^ *
> http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2009/03/31/running-of-the-bull-us-green-jobs-rhetoric/
>
> *New Report Finds “Green Jobs” Spending Cost Spain Hundreds of Thousands
> of Real Jobs, Decades in Lost Opportunity
>
> WASHINGTON, DC* – As evidence continues
> <http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/morriss-green-jobs-myths.pdf>
> to mount of the potential for a “green jobs”-focused recovery plan to
> raise energy prices here at home and cost American workers their real
> jobs in the process, a new study released this week
> <http://www.juandemariana.org/pdf/090327-employment-public-aid-renewable.pdf>
> in Spain found that for every “green job” created by the Spanish
> government over the past decade, *2.2 other jobs were killed* as a result.
>
> The report
> <http://www.juandemariana.org/pdf/090327-employment-public-aid-renewable.pdf>,
> written by Dr. Gabriel Calzada of Juan Carlos University in Madrid,
> comes as policy-makers in the U.S. House convene a hearing today
> <http://edlabor.house.gov/hearings/2009/03/green-jobs-and-their-role-in-o.shtml>
> to “examine green jobs and their role in our nation’s economic recovery.”
>
> Institute for Energy Research (IER) president Thomas J. Pyle issued the
> following statement subsequent to the report’s release:
>
> _“President *Obama has cited Spain as an example to be followed* for how
> our country can achieve long-term growth if we just commit ourselves
> down a path of a massive, long-term subsidization of ‘green jobs.’ But
> if that’s really the model on which the president’s basing U.S. policy,
> we may be in for a longer, deeper and more severe recession than
> previously thought.
>
> _“As this study makes clear, Spain has spent billions in taxpayer
> resources
> <http://www.juandemariana.org/pdf/090327-employment-public-aid-renewable.pdf>
> to subsidize renewable energy programs in an effort to jumpstart its
> ailing economy – _and what they’ve gotten in return are fewer jobs,
> skyrocketing debt and some of the highest and most regressive energy
> prices in the developed world._ Now, as U.S. policy-makers prepare to
> embark Americans upon a similar course, this report offers our first
> realistic glimpse into what we should expect in return for that
> unprecedented sacrifice of public resources and personal autonomy.”
>
> “The study’s results,” *Dr. Calzada wrote in the paper’s introduction*,
> “demonstrate how such ‘green jobs’ policy clearly hinders Spain’s way
> out of the current economic crisis, even while U.S. politicians insist
> that rushing into such a scheme will ease their own emergence from the
> turmoil. … This study marks the very first time a critical analysis of
> the actual performance and impact has been made.”
>
> The following represent some of the study’s key findings
> <http://www.juandemariana.org/pdf/090327-employment-public-aid-renewable.pdf>:
>
>
> * The U.S. can expect *2.2 jobs to be destroyed for every 1
> renewable job* financed by the government.
> * Only *1 in 10* of the jobs actually created through green
> investment is permanent.
> * Since 2000, Spain has spent *€571,138 ($753,778) to create each
> “green job,”* including subsidies of more than €1 million
> ($1,319,783) per wind industry job.
> * Those programs resulted in the *destruction of nearly 113,000
> jobs* elsewhere in the economy.
> * *Each “green” megawatt installed destroyed 5.39 jobs* in
> non-energy sectors of the Spanish economy.
> * The total *over-cost*­the amount paid over the cost that would
> result from buying the electricity generated by the renewable
> power plants at market prices­between 2000 and 2008 amounts to
> 7,918.54 million Euros (*$10 billion*).
> * The total subsidy spent and committed to these three renewable
> sources amounts to €28,671 million (*$36 billion*).
> * Consumer energy costs in Spain would have to be *increased 31
> percent* to repay the debt generated by the green jobs subsidies.
>
> *NOTE: *According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA),
> Spain’s annual emissions of carbon dioxide have increased by nearly 50
> percent <http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/country/img/charts/SP_co2_large.png>
> since the nation began its aggressive push to subsidize and support
> “green jobs.”
>
> More from IER on the fallacy and unintended consequences of “green jobs”:
>
> * Study: Green Jobs: Fact or Fiction?
> <http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2009/01/13/green-jobs-analysis/>
>
> * Study: Seven Myths about Green Jobs
> <http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/morriss-green-jobs-myths.pdf>
>
> * Blog: Green Jobs That Nobody Wants
> <http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2009/02/04/green-jobs-that-nobody-wants/>
>
> * Blog: It Takes a Lot of Government Green to Create a Green Job
> <http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2008/11/13/it-takes-a-lot-of-government-green-to-create-a-green-job/>
>
>
>
> /The Institute for Energy Research (IER) is a not-for-profit
> organization that conducts intensive research and analysis on the
> functions, operations, and government regulation of global energy
> markets. IER maintains that freely-functioning energy markets provide
> the most efficient and effective solutions to today’s global energy and
> environmental challenges and, as such, are critical to the well-being of
> individuals and society.
>
> www.InstituteforEnergyResearch.org
> <http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2009/03/31/running-of-the-bull-us-green-jobs-rhetoric/www.InstituteforEnergyResearch.org>
>
> /~ Janice
>

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Received on Wed Apr 1 13:56:31 2009