"Green" is not cheap. It is a profligration of entrepeneurship that has gone hog-wild into the realm of "new liberal profiteering".
That is all it is really about. Producing "green" things that have to be re-newed, replenished, as often as possible is a blatant
posturing of greed. these people are laughing all the way to the bank at the scramblingt o get "green". Ha!
Get in on the obscene profits!
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That's shortsighted thinking, says Ritter. "If you're really committed to policies like a national transmission grid, imagine the number of jobs it would create," he says. He's right: there are huge opportunities in a new-energy economy for cities, states, and countries that want to seize them. Still, there's a gulf between what the politicians promise and what the engineers think is feasible. NREL director Dan Arvizu warns that the transformation must be driven by the private sector and will require trillions of dollars of investment over decades. During the Bush years, NREL tried to make Washington appreciate the potential of renewables, Arvizu says. "In this administration, I'd say that our role is to put a realistic front on what is actually possible." In other words, the hopeful winds sweeping down from the Rockies also carry some hot air.
Gross is NEWSWEEK’s business columnist.
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