Jenny Granholm brings her failed "clean energy" policies to the national stage.
Michigan Capitol Confidential (5/4/21) reports: "Since former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm was appointed as U.S. Secretary of Energy, she has made many comments about creating clean energy jobs. 'So what we need to do is to make sure that all parts of the country and their leaders understand that this clean energy economy, that reducing carbon emissions, is a job creator for every corner of the nation,' Granholm said in an interview with National Public Radio. 'So even in coal country, even in gas and oil country, there’s an opportunity for jobs. ... There will be millions of jobs that will be created in clean energy.' Granholm’s comments echo claims she made as Michigan’s governor from 2003 through 2010 about how giving subsidies to alternative energy promoters would create jobs and grow the state economy. It never happened. Granholm boasts of making Michigan the 'clean energy capital of North America' never came close, and the subsidies she promoted did nothing to reverse job losses inflicted by a one-state recession and the subsequent worldwide financial crisis of the 2000s. There were 596,000 fewer in jobs in Michigan after Granholm’s eight years in office. Michigan had the nation’s highest unemployment rate from April 2006 through May 2010."
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"While few people would question the motivations or intentions of those advocating for increased recycling, good intentions don’t always make for the best policies. It would be more honest, efficient, and green, and much less expensive to admit that there is often no market for these materials. Doing so would allow us to avoid the added costs and expenditures on personnel and energy for collecting, transporting, separating, washing, and sorting recycled materials."
– Jason Hayes, Mackinac Policy Center
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