If there were money to be made in green jobs, private investors would be creating them already.

Democrats dont make money, they dont have the faintest clue how. Democrats steal other peoples money.

Look who they are! Their biggest constituencies are Union leaders who get their living from dues that the law forces others to pay to them; trial lawyers who sue people for a living, government bureaucrats whose existence also is due to laws forcing people to give them money; felons; and unemployed kids and Acorn thugs.

but maybe again, you are right, no one ever would consider the fact that fuel efficient cars would ever hit the market so soon.

Or, in other words, a reiteration of liberals’ beliefs that all people are stupid and don’t know what’s good for them, all profits are evil, that the laws of physics can be suspended by liberal fiat, and that government needs to control what people buy so that it can control their behavior.

What’s really funny is that rusty and his fellow liberals really think their blaming the oil companies constitutes an intellectual argument. The best example would be for a liberal like rusty to build an electric car cheaply and efficiently that is superior to a gasoline-powered model — just like he and his leftists claim they could do if the oil companies weren’t stopping them.

It is amazing how much pressure is placed on ‘muting’ the green jobs movement.

Look at how many cities ripped up transit options only to be replaced with highways and now those same cities are re-instating transit options.

Personally, I think Barone’s better quote is:

But the idea that green jobs will replace all the lost carbon-emitting jobs is magical thinking.

That’s closer to the ground truth. Green jobs are, and should be, a complement to “carbon-based” jobs (for lack of a better phrase). Perhaps someday green jobs will replace carbon jobs, but that day is much farther into the future than anyone cares to think. Green jobs are good, and a focus on sustainable living and sustainable economies is good, but it’s poppycock to think that we’re somehow going to just overhaul the world’s energy methods in less than a generation, or even that we should.