- Latest Developments In The Fight To Stop A Govt Internet Takeover
- State of Illinois Launches Sunshine Portal (CFA Site »)
- China Buys Our Debt, We Give Them Renewable Energy Stimulus Jobs...Seems About Right
- ATR Urges Governor McDonnell to Sign Bill to Abolish State Run Tax Preparation
- Saving the Sea Turtles...But at What Cost? (PRA Site »)
- Craig Miller Signs Taxpayer Protection Pledge in FL-24
- Next Week is Sunshine Week! (CFA Site »)
- The Economics of #StimulusFail
- Missouri Unions and Andy Stern on the Same Page: Raise Taxes (AWF Site »)
- Obamacare, Free Trade, & Our Economic Prosperity
Friday, March 12, 2010
- Rusty Bowers Signs the Taxpayer Protection Pledge for AZ-01 Race
- Ask Your Virginia Legislator to Vote "NO" on Any Budget Containing Higher Taxes
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ATR Supports H.R. 4781, the
"Keeping American Businesses
Competitive Act of 2010" - Stimulus Dollars Are Taking You for A Ride - On Greyhound Buses (CFA Site »)
- Ronald Reagan Legacy Project Urges Naming of California High School After Reagan
- Democrats Attempt to Subvert Congress in Hopes of Carbon Regulation
- Economic Issues Dominate at the Bloggers Briefing
- Pushback Against EPA’s Attempts to Regulate Carbon Emissions Grows
- Minnesota Gubernatorial Candidate Running on a Platform of Tax Hikes
Thursday, March 11, 2010
- Michigan Jobs Ain't What They Used To Be...Unless You Work For The Government
- ATR and CFA Support Earmark Moratorium
- CFA Supports Earmark Moratorium (CFA Site »)
- Voter Fraud in the Name of Tax Hikes
- Ballooning Deficits in Greece Foreshadowing Future for the U.S.? (ASA Site »)
- Green Jobs FAIL
- The Evergreen Tax and Fee Spree
- Pelosi: "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it" (CFA Site »)
- ATR Staffer Testifies Before U.S. House Energy & Commerce Select Committee
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
- The endemic rot in government run health care
- The Debt Panel's 800-lb. Gorilla: Why Andy Stern Stands Out
- The Left Agree: Obamacare Ushers In Their Radical Ideological Agenda
- We Ought Focus On Cutting Taxes & Spending, Not Deficits
- The Debt Panel's 800-lb. Gorilla (AWF Site »)
-
Does the Obamacare Investment Surtax
Apply to Capital Gains? - ATR Urges Opposition to Sen. Isakson Pension Bailout
- Taxpayers to Legislators: Clean Virginia Budget of Taxes
- ATR Supports the Georgia JOBS Act
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
- ATR Urges Utah Governor Herbert to Veto Tax Increase
- More on the VAT
- Public Sector Jobs
- How 550,000 jobs were destroyed by the minimum wage hike
- How Obamacare Will Hurt Poor Women & Children Most
- Federal Workers Make $11,000 More Than Private Sector Workers, and There’s More of Them (AWF Site »)
Monday, March 8, 2010
- Legislation Introduced to Put Ronald Reagan on the $50 Bill
- Pledge Signer Wins Illinois Republican Gubernatorial Primary
- "Net Neutrality" To Kill Jobs
- NY Supreme Court Votes to Evict Residents and Close Businesses (PRA Site »)
- California US Senate Candidates Square Off in First Debate
Friday, March 5, 2010
- ATR and CFA Support the Spending Limit Amendment
- Utah Representative Breaks Tax Pledge
- AWF Will Rate Vote on House Jobs Bill (AWF Site »)
- Energy Tax Hike Series: Use it or Lose it Tax
Thursday, March 4, 2010
- The reliability of spending "estimates"
- Utah State Senator Tries to Sweeten Tax Hike with Pork
- Obama Administration Makes Attempt to Seize Millions of Acres Across America (PRA Site »)
- More "Stimulus" Boondoggles - Social Engineering and Lobbying for Higher Taxes
- Energy Tax Hike Series: Raises Taxes on Tertiary Injectants
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
- Is This Reality or a Science Fiction Dystopia?
- Andy Stern Update: US Attorney Reviewing Case & Obama Appoints Stern to Debt Panel
- Texans: Do You Know Which Candidates Have Signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge?
- AWF Asks White House to Take Position on Andy Stern Investigation After Appointment to Debt Panel (AWF Site »)
- AWF Continues Andy Stern Investigation (AWF Site »)
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
- Energy Tax Hike Series: Superfund Tax Reinstated
Monday, March 1, 2010
- Rick Berg First Pledge Signer in North Dakota Congressional Race
Friday, February 26, 2010
Mandated Electricity Standards Kill More Jobs Than They Create
From Brian M Johnson on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 10:41 AMThe American Clean Energy Leadership Act (ACELA) passed out of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources last summer and now there are rumors that it will be included in the upcoming “jobs bill.” ACELA authors claim the bill will create jobs by increasing demand for renewable energy by implementing a national Renewable Electricity Standard (RES), by creating a new bureaucracy, the Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA), by providing financing for energy retrofits for homes and buildings, and by helping manufacturers transition to clean energy industries.
This bill would require that existing, efficient companies would have to switch to new, inefficient renewable sources or energy. The costs to implement this would be staggering, not to mention the massive waste to throw out the old, but still usable, equipment.
- Currently 40 states including the District of Columbia get less than 5% of their energy from “Carbon-Free Renewable” sources.
- Thirty-two states get less than 3% from renewable sources and the nation as a whole only gets 2.8%.
States would need massive overhauls on their power generation to reach the goals of 3% by 2013 up to 15% by 2039. Compliance with the RES would require federal subsidies that would diminish further resources from other sectors of the economy.
Spain’s recent experiment with RES has yielded the following results:
- For every one subsidized green job, 2.2 jobs were lost.
- Since 2000, Spain has committed $753,778 (U.S.) for every “green job.
- This program has destroyed nearly 110,500 jobs.
- “Each ‘green’ megawatt installed destroyed 5.39 jobs elsewhere in the economy.”
- This bill may create a few new “green jobs,” mostly as government employees in the CEDA; however, it will destroy far more jobs than it could ever hope to create.
So why is the Obama-Pelosi-Reid Troika continuing to policies to appease special interests when they will, in fact, continue to hurt our economy? What do you think...comment below.
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