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Regulating to Disaster: How Green Jobs Policies Are Damaging America's Economy by [Diana Furchtgott-Roth , Furchtgott-Roth Diana]

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What is a “green job” anyway? Few can adequately define one. Even the government isn’t sure, you will learn in these pages. Still, President Obama and environmentalist coalitions such as the BlueGreen Alliance claim the creation of green jobs can save America’s economy, and are worth taxpayers’ investment.

But in Regulating to Disaster, Diana Furchtgott-Roth debunks that myth. Instead, energy prices rise dramatically and America’s economic growth and employment rate suffer — in some states much more than others — when government invests in nonviable ventures such as the bankrupted Solyndra, which the Obama Administration propped up far too long.

Electric cars, solar energy, wind farms, biofuels: President Obama’s insistence on these dubious pursuits ultimately hamstrings American businesses not deemed green enough, and squeezes struggling households with regulations. Adding insult to injury: the technology subsidies Americans pay for solar panels, wind turbines, and electric batteries really help create manufacturing jobs in China and South Korea.

Green jobs are the most recent reappearance of a perennial bad idea — government regulation of certain industries, designed to anoint winners and losers in the marketplace. Regulating to Disaster reveals the powerful nexus of union leaders, environmentalists, and lobbyists who dreamed up these hoaxes, and benefit politically and financially from green jobs policies. Unfortunately, there are more Solyndras on the horizon, and our economy is in no shape to absorb them.

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Diana Furchtgott-Roth, former chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor, is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a MarketWatch columnist, a contributing editor of RealClearMarkets.com, and a monthly columnist for Tax Notes. From 2001 to 2002 Ms. Furchtgott-Roth served as chief of staff of President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers. She also served as deputy executive secretary of the Domestic Policy Council at the White House under President George H.W. Bush and as an economist on the staff of President Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers. Ms. Furchtgott-Roth, who has degrees in economics from Swarthmore College and Oxford University, lives in Maryland with her husband Harold. They have six children and two dogs.
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00973T87C
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Encounter Books (September 25, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 25, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Joe Hischer

Great book about the Green Deal

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 24, 2022

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Excellent book on the Green Deal and excellent service from Amazon.

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Stephen C. Baer

Where the Sun Stops the Buck Starts

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 8, 2013

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Regulating to disaster, which includes promising chapters on "The Green Job Theology" and "The Opiate for The Masses; Moral Superiority" is a readable study of some of the problems caused by expert government planners. Furchtgott - Roth doesn't go far enough for this reader. Why all the footnotes? Frederic Bastiat, who she mentions, didn't need footnotes to make the point in his 1850 essay, "that which is seen and that which is not seen" nor do we need them today.
We are victims of a false choice. Choose between inexpensive but polluting coal power plants and expensive less polluting solar power plants. We are not to see through this trick. Skip power plants and use the sun directly for light, for drying, for heating.

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Matt

GREAT BOOK

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 12, 2014

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DFR lays bare the real cost of alternate energy. We are dealing with this in Eastern North Carolina as Torch LLC. from Houston has proposed a plan to install wind turbines in the local area. They are unreliable. Power must be supplied to customers when the turbines are not spinning, so a duplicate power supply must already be in place. You are now operating two different power generation systems inefficiently...while the turbine is generating power, the traditional power station is operating at less than optimal efficiency. OBTW...a recent article in Forbes-Business tells the tale on Germany as they push alternative energy in previous decades are now building eleven (11)...you read that correctly, new hard coal plants to take advantage of cheap coal prices over the next two (2) years.

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joefrat

A NECESSARY READ FOR ALL CONCERNED CITIZENS

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 27, 2012

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As the book explains in a clear, understandable manner, green (or clean) energy and the programs associated with the subject are a GIANT scam on Americans and free societies elsewhere. However, it is sad to say, most Americans do not understand either the nature of the scam, nor the damage that it will do to us - both politically and economically. This is an important and necessary reading for all concerned citizens, regardless of political affiliation.

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Bruce Bergum

Outstanding Book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 18, 2012

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Absolutely outstanding and accurate explanation of the "green" agenda being promoted by liberals and progressives. The author uses her personal experiences to shed light on the "green" agenda which is no more than a scam being perpetrated on the citizens of the United States as well as te people of the entire world. A giant scam to advance global socializm and destroy tradition maufacturing.

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Just an Amazon Customer

Very important

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 31, 2012

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This book should be required reading in and out of Washington. The green industry has far too many of the elected and electorate under their spell.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 15, 2012

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It points out all of the negatives, but does not mention any of the upside of solar and wind energy. I understand the shortcomings of government deciding what will work and what won't, but a more balanced view would bolster the author's citicisms. I would not really recomend it to anyone.

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Recreational reading

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2014

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