Not a surprise: We set up new subsidies for clean, green energy, and the jobs for it go overseas.
Huge surprise: Liberal senators suddenly get a clue.
A group of Democratic senators called Wednesday for the government to halt a federal stimulus program aimed at building wind farms and other clean-energy projects, arguing that too much of the money spent so far has gone to create jobs overseas.
The wind lobby is working hard to prevent any sort of “buy American” provision, naturally. The great irony is that not only will the windmill-building jobs go to China, but the windmills will be built only by burning some of the cheapest, filthiest coal in the world.
And to top it off : if cap and trade ever goes into effect, the energy user firms will also start exporting their jobs to China, to escape high energy costs.
