EPA official: JOBS DON'T MATTER

From: The Blog Prof

From The Detroit Free Press: Clean energy race falls to states, private sector as Congress puts up roadblocks. That roadbloack? Not passing cap-and-trade:

The race to build a clean energy economy in the U.S. has run into roadblocks on Capitol Hill, leaving states and the private sector with little federal support as they try to transform this vision into reality.

To the dismay of environmentalists, efforts to pass new energy policies that would spur investments in wind, solar and other renewable sources of power have been stymied in Washington.

More recently, the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions has come under attack in Congress.

A few things here: 1) the green energy economy will build itself via the free market vis a vis innovation, not by government diktat; 2) skyrocketing energy prices will crime green energy as well as conventional; and 3) it will not spur any jobs growth. In fact, the EPA admitted just that and the freep is ignorant of that fact. From The Daily Caller via memeorandum: EPA official says jobs don't matter

The Obama administration has repeatedly said job creation is a top priority, but apparently the memo seems to have missed the bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

This became evident when EPA Assistant Administrator Mathy Stanislaus testified Thursday before an Environment and Energy subcommittee hearing that his agency does not take jobs into account when it issues new regulations.