{"id":23739,"date":"2014-09-03T10:04:19","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T14:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23739"},"modified":"2014-09-03T10:04:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T14:04:19","slug":"it-sounds-good-but-it-doesnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23739","title":{"rendered":"It Sounds Good, But It Doesn’t Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spain<\/a> went ‘green’ a few years ago. They began heavily subsidizing<\/a> solar and wind energy projects in the early 2000’s. Last Thursday, the Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article updating us on the results of this program.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

\u201cFor years, President Obama<\/a> has pointed to Europe\u2019s<\/a> energy policies as an example that the United States<\/a> should follow,\u201d said IER (Institute for Energy Research<\/a><\/span>) in a statement on their new study. \u201cHowever, those policies have been disastrous for countries like Spain, where electricity prices have skyrocketed, unemployment is over 25 percent, and youth unemployment is over 50 percent.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

This really does not sound like an example we want to follow.<\/p>\n

Not only did Spain’s green energy program hurt the Spanish economy, it didn’t help with the carbon footprint<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The IER study also notes that Spain\u2019s green agenda was not able to keep its carbon footprint from rising. Between 1994 and 2011, Spain\u2019s carbon dioxide emissions grew 34.5 percent, despite the country\u2019s green push which began in the 1990s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the renewable policies themselves were likely not the cause of the emissions increase, the upward trend does prove that renewable energy<\/a> policies were insufficient to reduce CO2 emissions over a roughly twenty-year period,\u201d according to IER.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cis anything but the model for American energy policy,\u201d reads the IER study. \u201cThe country\u2019s expensive feed-in tariff system, subsidies, and renewable energy quotas have plunged a sizable portion of Spaniards into fuel poverty, raised electricity bills, all while having almost no meaningful impact on curtailing carbon dioxide emissions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Green energy<\/a> may eventually provide better ways to fuel the world’s economy, but we are not there yet. We need to allow the free market to determine our steps forward. Government subsidies are obviously not the answer.<\/p>\n

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