Robert Murphy: Busting the Myth of Green Jobs

Green jobs and cap and trade are touted as planet-saving, job creating endeavors that will also rescue our ailing economy. IER economist Robert Murphy thinks there's more to this story, and examines these assertions in a speech at the Heritage Foundation.

May 4, 2009

http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org

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Science & Technology

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• green jobs
• energy
• robert murphy
• heritage
• political opinion
• environment

[Moragauth]

Difficult for a good economist not to. ;)

[VityokOrgUa]

It seems to me like he repeated the one of the lessons from Bastia.

[TheManiacalSatanist6]

LMAO! Robert Murphy killed this nonsense easily.

Well done!

[Ringvireot]

Do "green jobs" ever have the effective outcome to preserving and/or restoring environmental qualities to ensure the Earth is free from carbon pollution? That's what every environmental extremist wants people to believe in a phoney cause that obviously isn't going to show a significant change to the planet.

Every initiatives want decent hard working people to be brainwashed by a ridiculous concept so they'll be unaware they'll still accumulate more carbon emissions to the atmosphere.

[Illyrien]

@spinner883

Okay, you dont like that unholy alliance between Big Business and the State, fine, I wholeheartedly agree. But the only efficient solution to it, is to reduce the power of the state and this what Big Business can get out of it. We need business to return to making money through the market and not through the politicians.

[spinner883]

@Illyrien This is the typical bullshit of making "The State" or some "other" an invisible specter that is out to get you.... the "State" is always changing business interests.

" Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business" - John Dewey

Bob Murphy is a great economist but an even greater framer - and thats why he gets these high-paid jobs at these think tanks.

[spinner883]

@Illyrien Except the fact that it is often the State that tries to censor these very issues. It was the Bush administration that censored James Hansen; it was Cheney who allowed various energy companies to forgo 40 years of environmental regulation in the 2005 energy Bill. It was the United States that ousted James Watson from the IPCC in 2002 at the request of Exxon asking if he could be replaced because he was too scary...is 8 years ago too hard to remember?

[Illyrien]

@spinner883

So? Its not as if the State would ever fund a man like him who wont obay its infinite wisdom.

[bisek]

#strong

[spinner883]

i like how he says that someone could only hate this if they were in the pay of big oil...like Mr. Murphy right here

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[fexdid]

nice analysis