Guess what? All these claims that curbing carbon emissions is going to create jobs and help the economy is so much bovine scatology. And that's according to leftists and environmentalists in government.
The Washington Policy Center yesterday released an internal government briefing written by the then-head of the Washington State Department of Ecology Jay Manning (he's since been promoted to the governor's chief of staff). In the briefing Manning admits that the anti-carbon rules the governor put out as an executive order will hurt the economy but this is a benefit because it will make the business community yearn for cap and trade:
. . . having these administrative mechanisms available will be critical to meeting our state’s 2020 reduction requirement. An almost certain increase in the regulated community’s interest in getting a national program will be an important side benefit.
While Manning doesn't explicitly say "this will hurt the economy" why else would businesses (i.e., "the regulated community") want more regulation unless the regulation it replaces is worse?
And the same thing is happening on a national level with the EPA's "endangerment" finding for greenhouse gasses. As Fox New reports:
The Obama administration is warning Congress that if it doesn't move to regulate greenhouse gases, the Environmental Protection Agency will take a "command-and-control" role over the process in a way that could hurt business.
No, will hurt businesses and those they employ. The environmentalists know that their carbon-reduction schemes will hurt the economy. They simply do not care and lie about the "benefits" of green jobs. But we have little choice: the EPA way or the cap-and-trade way. Both will damage the economy, cost jobs, cost prosperity. One is just worse than the other.
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