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Green Jobs

Written by Greg Russell | Sep 4, 2011 5:07:02 PM

Our mention yesterday of the jobs being created in North Dakota as a result of oil development of the Bakken reminded us of this article in the NYT on the promise of "green jobs":  "In the Bay Area as in much of the country, the green economy is not proving to be the job-creation engine that many politicians envisioned. President Obama once pledged to create five million green jobs over 10 years. Gov. Jerry Brown promised 500,000 clean-technology jobs statewide by the end of the decade. But the results so far suggest such numbers are a pipe dream."  (Emphasis is ours.)

When even the NYT is saying it, you know there's a problem ...