Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Every green job created in eight years by the Spanish government came at the expense of 2.2 regular jobs lost.”

“House Minority Leader John Boehner previously estimated one green-job bill “would spend a whopping $275,000 in taxpayer dollars for every new job it aims to create,” effectively taxing each U.S. household $6,700. “Green jobs are not so much created as they are bought with massive taxpayer subsidies,” said Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., who released the Senate report…Every green job created in eight years by the Spanish government came at the expense of 2.2 regular jobs lost, according to economics professor Dr. Gabriel Calzada at Madrid’s Juan Carlos University. He found only one in 10 of new jobs became permanent. Dr. Calzada also concluded the U.S. would lose nine existing jobs for every four green jobs created, without considering regular jobs that could have been created had the money not been diverted.”

“Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) argued in several newspaper interviews that the House should move cautiously on a cap-and-trade bill if it doesn’t look like the Senate will approve it. Van Hollen doesn’t want vulnerable House Democrats — especially the freshmen under his care — to be forced to take difficult votes on the measure if it’s not going to pass anyway. But Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, a 34-year veteran of the House who knocked off his longtime predecessor last fall to push an ambitious climate change bill, took umbrage with Van Hollen’s public stance during Thursday’s leadership meeting, people present said…most present saw the flare-up between Waxman and Van Hollen as the inevitable result of tension that had been building around the bill for months.”

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