Green is the new. . . jobs mirage (National Review, 10.13.09)

Posted by hpayne on October 13, 2009

Last week, while Michiganders shivered through more subnormal temperatures and watched their crop yields freeze from a summer of too-cool weather, a green echo chamber of media, government bureaucrats and activists gathered for a Midwest Governor’s Association (MGA) conference in downtown Detroit to draw a “Midwestern Energy Security and Climate Stewardship Roadmap” to help Michigan navigate around . . . global warming.

No one seemed more out of touch than Gov. Jennifer Granholm, MGA chairwoman, who declared that Michigan’s manufacturing future lay in making windmills to meet state caps on CO2 emissions. The governor’s claim that Michigan is perfectly situated to produce the green jobs of the future betrays her fundamental misunderstanding as to what made Michigan an international manufacturing powerhouse in the first place. . . .

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