This embodies the problem with the current path towards green energy.California measure FAILS to create green jobs
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-c...050919689.html
Three years after California voters passed a ballot measure to raise taxes on corporations and generate clean energy jobs by funding energy-efficiency projects in schools, barely one-tenth of the promised jobs have been created, and the state has no comprehensive list to show how much work has been done or how much energy has been saved.
Voters in 2012 approved the Clean Energy Jobs Act by a large margin, closing a tax loophole for multistate corporations. The Legislature decided to send half the money to fund clean energy projects in schools, promising to generate more than 11,000 jobs each year.
Instead, only 1,700 jobs have been created in three years, raising concerns about whether the money is accomplishing what voters were promised.
"We've got a long track record in California of over-promising green jobs and under-delivering," said Clark [VP of the California Business Roundtable], who also expressed concern that most of the jobs created so far appear to be consulting positions.
Let me say that again for those of you who had your responses ready from reading the title alone.
Its the PATH towards green energy that is controversial:
--Mob ignorance inspired measures hostile to business which are used to prop up the guise that green tech is
a) ready to meet all energy needs, and
b) a thing that should be funded with government appropriated and distributed dollars rather than the free market
--Grandiose and hypocritical promises that jobs can be created by destroying a functional foundation and replacing it with one that fails to work as effectively.
--Lack of transparency, and accountability.
Green tech is the future that is undeniable, but we will not get there any time soon so long as it is allowed to be a sector held hostage by political agenda.