Christopher Horner reports that Pajamas Media has received a leaked internal document confirming Spain realizes its green failures, just as Obama pushes the American Power Act based on Spain’s program.
Pajamas Media has received a leaked internal assessment produced by Spain’s Zapatero administration. The assessment confirms the key charges previously made by non-governmental Spanish experts in a damning report exposing the catastrophic economic failure of Spain’s “green economy” initiatives.
On eight separate occasions, President Barack Obama has referred to the “green economy” policies enacted by Spain as being the model for what he envisioned for America.
Later came the revelation that Obama administration senior Energy Department official Cathy Zoi — someone with serious publicized conflict of interest issues — demanded an urgent U.S. response to the damaging report from the non-governmental Spanish experts so as to protect the Obama administration’s plans.
Most recently, U.S. senators have introduced the vehicle for replicating Spain’s unfolding economic meltdown here, in the form of the “American Power Act.”
But today’s leaked document reveals that even the socialist Spanish government now acknowledges the ruinous effects of green economic policy.
Full story here:
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Where are the green jobs in America?
I looked on Wiki and the agriculture production jobs are labeled green. Helps the numbers look better.
This regime knows Spain was failing. But they don’t have Harvud grads.
No more than most of us expected. No doubt Obama won’t get around to reading it, as his sole purpose appears to be to destroy the United States as we know it.
Another point to mention when sending e-mails, phone calls, etc., to our state Senators. After ObamaCare, it really seems like they’re not listening, but it’s about the only avenue available.
— Bloomberg
Note that the only bright spot is Spain’s exports of wind equipment — but the Spanish, like the rest of the population of Europe, is growing more and more wary of having their landscape and rural lifestyle destroyed by useless phalanxes of monster turbines. So Spain is exporting them — to the US and Canada, where the public hasn’t caught on yet. (GE, of course, bought its “renewable” business from Enron when the latter went belly-up.)
With wind, the catch-22 is that the turbines generate their full rated power typically less than 15-20% of the time in the best locations, but backup natural gas plants have to have the same full rated power and kept on warm standby 24/7. Simply running a quarter of the backup plants constantly at full power (a more fuel-efficient mode anyway) would both save CO2 emissions (assuming for the sake of argument that’s desirable) and save the enormous capital costs of the turbines (about €2 million per tower) and three-quarters of the gas capacity. Plus of course saving the subsidy.
The “renewable energy” fraud is the bootlegger half of the Global Warming scam; Greenpeace and the like are the Baptist half.
As we in “nowhere” Oregon get covered with those monstrosities only to be
abandoned later….
Hello from spain.
Just a couple of things to say:
Spain’s GDP is 1 trillion euros, so you can calculate percentages and extract your own conclusions of this crazy green policy
On Spain, energy companies are obligated to buy national coal (which is more expensive than import carbon), but they don’t use it to produce energy because coal energy in spain is less than a 15%. They buy more than they need.
Coal mining in Spain survives only by public money. In 2010, the total amount will be 681 milion €. There are only 7967 workers on coal mining in Spain.
Sorry for my english
It goes all the way to the top. Here’s Obama talking about Serious Materials.
Is that a real Gore ad or an Onion type spoof? It made me laugh out loud.
Gettin’ rich off of “global warming”:
“How green is Al Gore’s $9 million Montecito oceanfront villa?”
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/05/how-green-is-al-gores-9-million-montecito-ocean-front-villa
It’s worse than we thought. Well, not really.
Correction on that link:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/05/how-green-is-al-gores-9-million-montecito-ocean-front-villa/1
For such a green, emission free technology, there sure are a lot of videos of them burning.
Move along, nothing to see here…
I don’t think anyone is surprised by this…isn’t it similar to what several independent people have predicted? Oh wait, I guess they were funded by Big Oil, and apparently the entire socialist government of Spain is funded by Big Oil too!
What a conspiracy…IT’S WORSE THAN WE THOUGHT!
LOL
-Scott
This is what climate change alarmism produces. We have to get changed over now before we die. These hard charging policies are going to kill the world economy if allowed to persist. Very gradual implementation is needed. I don’t mind green tech for energy, but common sense needs to prevail. Notice those windmills not turning. Wind energy is a weak alternative. Solar is a little better, but during the winter when there is less sun, and more light time needed, doesn’t work out so well, either. Although it is generally windier during those months.
This is not like introducing new technology into the consumer market. Expensive at first, but as the wealthy start to buy, the price goes down as the demand goes up. If it doesn’t make it, no harm, no foul. But energy is a different beast. It is needed, and any changes the drive the price up can set back, or even cripple an economy. And the world economy doesn’t need that kind of pressure right now. And governments trying to subsidize to buffer that transition are really feeling it now. Kill your sources of revenue, and print more money, all for the sake of the climate. And we elect these people!
Notice in the movie, none of the turbines are working. It’s common here in UK, drive up through Cumbria, where there’s plenty of them, often half are idle.
This is great news to debunk an economic model that is designed to fail.
How can this wind mill burn while there is no wind to make it turn? Note also that the other wind mills are not turning… expensive equipment to just sit there an not produce electricity.
What is this about? (OT)
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/05/2010-is-warmest-year-on-record/1
They say it is warmest year on record and record low snow extent? Given the cold winter in the northern hemisphere, I’m wondering whats up with this article.
As Horner says , the report softpedals the facts . What I don’t understand is how the Spanish govt. hopes to meet their objectives listed at the end of the report . What are the chances that our MSM will report this ?
All socialist policies are a joke. Britain’s Labour government was spending its way to oblivion creating governmental jobs to make it look like it was tackling unemployment. Then it created a welfare culture for immigrants to make sure they all voted Labour even if they hated the country and were abusing our kindness. If Labour had won the election they would have proceeded to build stupid windmills everywhere, turn Britain into a slave of the EU and IMF, and then forced the public to accept ID cards and carbon rations as a way to police and control every aspect of our lives in the name of ‘security’. It reads like a conspiracy theory yet it is all there in the open. A blatant abuse of power.
The rush to the green fiasco creates massive national debt.
The green energy jobs are temporary
Spain is running 20-22% unemployment.
Going green creates splendid opportunity for pork, bribes, kickbacks, carbon trading scams and everything but economical energy.
The American Power Grab Act creates 60 new agencies.
Perhaps Obama isn’t smart enough to understand what a disaster his green policies will be in the US, but I seriously doubt it. Perhaps Obama isn’t congnizant of the machinations of the free market system and what debilitating impact his green policies will have on job creation and wealth generation, but I seriously doubt that, too. That leaves us with just this alternative–that this puppet of the Progressive Socialists has every intention of thwarting capitalism, scuttling our standard of living, and destroying our democratic republic. In his campaign, he promised to bring “change”. We’re seeing all too clearly what a disaster this will be–should the US become like Europe, there will be no hope for the western world. But Obama isn’t working to support westerm civilizaiton; he’s working against it!
However, half of the solution is in clearly recognizing the problem. And enough people recognize it now that these Progressive’s time is up. Their day of dominance is ending.
How does Obama manage to lecture anyone on profligate government spending and for having an excessive deficit without his face turning beet red?
Why do you think Obama wants the US to be prosperous and successful? Looks to me that Obama is pushing a Spain like program BECAUSE it has totally failed in Spain.
The health care bill was modeled on a failed one from Mass. and now the energy bill is being modeled on a failed one from Spain. The whole economic policy is modeled on socilism which has failed world wide. What else is new?