{"id":5749,"date":"2010-06-16T16:59:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T20:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5749"},"modified":"2010-06-16T18:21:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T22:21:20","slug":"california-gives-the-lie-to-obamas-clean-energy-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5749\/california-gives-the-lie-to-obamas-clean-energy-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"California Gives the Lie to Obama’s Clean Energy Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why bother editorializing when — as lawyers and Romans would say — Res ipsa loquitur<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

From President Obama’s Oval Office address<\/a> last night:<\/p>\n

When I was a candidate for this office, I laid out a set of principles that would move our country towards energy independence. Last year, the House of Representatives acted on these principles by passing a strong and comprehensive energy and climate bill \u2013 a bill that finally makes clean energy the profitable kind of energy for America\u2019s businesses<\/p>\n

Now, there are costs associated with this transition. And some believe we can\u2019t afford those costs right now. I say we can\u2019t afford not to change how we produce and use energy \u2013 because the long-term costs to our economy, our national security, and our environment are far greater.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From an article in today’s Ventura County Star<\/a> about California’s draconian greenhouse gas regulations:<\/p>\n

Californians need to acknowledge the full consequences of the state\u2019s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and accept the reality \u201cthat the net result of green policies may be negative for the economy,\u201d says a report released today by the California Lutheran University Center for Economic Research and Forecasting…<\/p>\n

The report examines economic studies in Europe, where the movement toward green jobs began. It finds the government costs of subsidizing jobs in the renewable energy sector have been excessive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Germany, as in Spain, there is considerable belief that the job creation afforded by investment in renewables has been more than offset by the impact of more expensive energy, which has slowed consumption and investment elsewhere in the economy,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n

In the U.S., it says, \u201cEven as energy prices have increased, the growth of green jobs has been slower than expected. The evidence shows that green jobs and the regulations needed to spur them are expensive and hurt the economy.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, Mr. President, how long-term were you thinking exactly?<\/p>\n

More on the economic lunacy in my new column <\/a>reviewing the President’s speech last night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why bother editorializing when — as lawyers and Romans would say — Res ipsa loquitur. From President Obama’s Oval Office address last night: When I was a candidate for this office, I laid out a set of principles that would move our country towards energy independence. Last year, the House of Representatives acted on these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,299,25,301,451,1320],"class_list":["post-5749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-california","tag-cap-and-trade","tag-environmentalism","tag-green-jobs","tag-gulf-oil-spill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5749"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5755,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749\/revisions\/5755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}