as cap-n-trade is pretty much dead, which means energy prices will stay low. So the "green jobs" thing is just a bunch of pork. Nothing more. Ultimately, not much so-called "green" energy will be produced, but it will take a few years for people to realize that it was just money down a hole. To really test the concept, you'd have to really subject people to the high cost of green energy, and allow them to experience the economic impact of that, with the broad-scale job losses caused by energy prices across the economy. But there's a key distinction between jobs-as-pork and jobs-as-efficiency-reductions. The Democrats know perfectly well that raising energy prices would hurt the economy and be death politically. But they are happy to shovel pork. But the progressives really believe that if you tax the shit out of everything but green energy, you can actually create jobs by forcing people to buy from those more expensive sources. Progressive are generally incapable of seeing the secondary economic effects of raising consumer prices. It's the same thing with trade barriers. They think that buying "locally" improves the economy, when what it actually does is suck resources out of your wallet, so you have less to spend on other things. This is an interesting article which I recommended to my friends. I do not agree with all of it, but it certainly caused me to question some of my own conceptions. I recently subscribed to "Reason." I am looking forward to