There goes our power bills... through the roof...
These guys are off their rockers. Coal and nuclear are the answer. Green power does not create jobs, it costs jobs!
When you subsidies things and create artificial market constructs as in much of Europe, what you're ultimately doing is robbing Peter to pay Paul. Of course the costs of these subsidies etc are usually not rolled into the costs when some BS comparison is made.
Here's the bottom line. Without big government paying and artificially financially making these green power alternatives viable, fossil fuels would kick them to hell. When Obama talks of “jobs being created” in this new greener economy, what he's really saying is that we created 100 jobs in a solar power manufacturing plant, but lost 1000 in the coal industry, aluminum plants that left the country because of rising energy costs, etc etc etc. Yes, jobs are created, but the subsidies themselves also represent an opportunity cost, and rising energy costs mean loss of competitiveness and pressure on manufacturing, transportation, and service sectors.
The kids are in charge.