A report on the Spanish green energy debacle:
As predicted was inevitable, today the Spanish newspaper La Gaceta runs with a full-page article fessing up to the truth about Spain’s “green jobs” boondoggle, which happens to be the one naively cited by President Obama no less than eight times as his model for the United States. It is now out there as a bust, a costly disaster that has come undone in Spain to the point that even the Socialists admit it, with the media now in full pursuit.
Breaking the Spanish government’s admission here at Pajamas Media probably didn’t hurt their interest in finally reporting on the leaked admission. Obama’s obvious hope of rushing into place his “fundamental transformation” of America into something more like Europe’s social democracies — where even the most basic freedoms have been moved from individuals and families to the state — before the house of cards collapsed has suffered what we can only hope proves to be its fatal blow. At least on this front.
La Gaceta boldly exposes the failure of the Spanish renewable policy and how Obama has been following it. The headline screams: “Spain admits that the green economy as sold to Obama is a disaster.”
It has lots of company with other administration policies in that regard.
‘Merde’? Do you mean ‘mierda’ (tr: shit/crap)?
Yeah, I know I’m mixing languages, but I liked the way it “rhymed” (in spelling, if not pronunciation).
What’s frightening is that so many people (predominantly, but not exclusively, members of the Democrat party) believe that “innovation” will somehow make new sources of “green” energy emerge that they’re willing to pass cap and trade to try to force the matter.
It’s like going of the high dive into an empty swimming pool, hoping that “somehow” somebody will fill it in time. As an engineer who has spent a lifetime working with energy in every form, I can tell you that we’re going to hit dry concrete. And the splat will cost real lives…
MfK: You have nailed it. We have technologically illiterate politicians, and a technologically illiterate public voting for them, making the rules for a high tech society. Nothing good can come of it.