Beam me to Planet Gore !
As a Canadian observer, I can say that our federal government has managed to avoid most of these green schemes that waste money, but our provincial governments (notably Ontario) have wasted tons of money and propose to waste a lot more. So have some municipalities.
We need a general uprising in the so-called free world against this green economic disaster plan. It seems to be one of the main causes of the current global economic malaise and governments generally speaking don’t seem to get the problem at all, instead they are making it far worse by wasting all this money on schemes that can never pay off. I just read that the average cost of a green job is something like $4 million — for that much money, you could retire ten people for life and therefore create ten jobs. Or you could just use it more wisely.
I hope the eventual GOP nominee takes a very strong stand on “green waste” and I also hope we can sharpen our political stand against green economics, because we need more than case by case opposition, we need general opposition to all forms of wasteful phoney green economic stimulus spending, grants, and schemes. Anything involving wind and solar energy needs to be very carefully vetted and we would be further ahead to assume all of it is fraudulent and lose one or two good projects than to go ahead spending on these dubious ends. If it’s going to work, private enterprise will lead the way.