Posted on 10/02/2012 5:30:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Obama has made so-called green energy policies a key part of his economic agenda, but as a new book argues, they actually disproportionately hurt the poor by boosting the cost of energy.
Last week, Examiner columnist and Manhattan Institute fellow Diana Furchtgott-Roth, author of the new book Regulating to Disaster: How Green Jobs Policies Are Damaging Americas Economy, explained that:
Most people think green is good but pay little attention to associated increases in costs. In 2015, it will cost between $49 and $79 to generate one megawatt hour of electricity from natural gas. A megawatt hour from onshore wind will cost between $75 and $138, and from solar photovoltaic will cost between $242 and $455.
As her book demonstrates in this chart, rising costs of energy hit lower income Americans the hardest, because they spend a higher proportion of their incomes on energy:
Energy Costs as a Percentage of Income by Quintile, 2011
Cheap energy = more jobs = widespread prosperity
Artificially expensive energy = fewer jobs = widespread poverty
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“Artificially expensive energy = fewer jobs = widespread poverty”
And more government dependence...and isn’t that what’s always been the government’s goal?
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