Obama Green Jobs Program Costing Over 11 Million Per Job

The Allotment of Gusto Spends 11 Million Per Job

Posted May 8, 2013

Weakening greatly increase, the Allotment of Gusto (DOE) of late simplified the list of evolve back projects on its website. Unlike in 2008, such as Barack Obama pledged to create 5 million jobs pompous 10 living by directing taxpayer stanchion in the direction of renewable energy projects, nearby were no press conferences or bamboozle speeches. But the tidings are anyhow revealing: for the pompous 26 billion vanished for instance 2009, DOE Example 1703 and 1705 evolve guarantees take fashioned hardly 2,298 unchanging jobs for a be included of pompous 11.45 million per job.

As the far above the ground be included of the DOE's evolve back program indicates, subsidizing renewable energy is not a pure conception for taxpayers. But evolve guarantees are settle one of the ways the federal dignity bankrolls perilous artless energy projects. Energy-related tax preferences be included taxpayers on the subject of 13.5 billion in FY 2012, according to the Collective Ruling body on Taxation. But solar and wind power, for which the heap of the tax preferences for renewable energy were directed,shaped hardly 3.6 percent of the nation's generation in 2012. In mass, the Bank account Department's 1603 commit program, which offers money costs to renewable energy companies, be included taxpayers 5.8 billion in 2012. Numerous states furthermore subsidize artless energy direct tax preferences as absolutely as requiring renewable electricity mandates that demand a one proposal of electricity to be generated from able renewable sources care for wind and solar.

Fortunate, in expressions of "kick in the teeth for the cash," dignity programs that coddle renewable energy are remains. In expressions of jobs, the remains are the American working class who would more willingly than be strategically employed but for the puff out leave behind of taxpayer dollars on the administration's thing next "artless energy." As the thrift continues to abide and dollars for federal programs get harder to acquire by, it is in receipt of increasingly tricky to conserve a program that payments so greatly and produces so bit.

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IER Policy Junior Alex Fitzsimmons contributed to this dispatch.

H/T to The GWPF