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The false promise of green energy

by Morriss, Andrew P., 1960-

Format: Print Book 2011
Availability: Available at 1 Library 1 of 1 copy

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Penn Hills Library Non-Fiction 333.794 MOR
Location  Penn Hills Library
 
Collection  Non-Fiction
 
Call Number  333.794 MOR
 
 

Summary
The False Promise of Green Energy illustrates the irresponsibility of attempting to transform modern society with borrowed money, wishful thinking, and bad economics. It shows how the top-down control programs offered by green-energy and green-jobs advocates are unlikely to achieve positive results compared with allowing competitive forces to continue to provide ever greater environmental quality and energy efficiencies.
Contents
How we live : reality and utopia
Fables : alternative futures for society
The challenge of green energy
Defining green jobs
Forecasting green jobs
The green war on trade
Economic fallacies of the green economy
Green pork and the green economy
Green cars, trucks, and the green economy
How green is mass transit?
The politics of green energy
Forward to the past?
Additional Information
Subjects Clean energy industries.
Renewable energy sources.
Environmental sciences -- Vocational guidance.
Green movement.
Publisher Washington, D.C. :Cato Institute,2011
Contributors Dorchak, Andrew.
Meiners, Roger E.
Bogart, William T.
Language English
Description 289 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9781935308416 (hardback : alk. paper)
1935308416 (hardback : alk. paper)
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