Renewable Energy Job Creation — Apparently a Hot Topic Politically

When I started to think about this, I Googled “renewable energy job creation,”  I noticed that the first item offered me was an article from Fox News, that, predictably, ridiculed the idea that significant numbers of new jobs could come from clean energy, for a variety of reasons including the notion that migration to renewable energy is a pipedream anyway.  The author pointed out that the number of solar panels shipped from 1982 to 1998 would make only an infinitessimal contribution to the total energy required.  This makes one wonder why they chose 1998 — he couldn’t find any data on the subject for the last 12 years?  That seems unlikely. 

But I wonder why Fox News came up first here in any case.  In the discussions of net neutrality, we see what various groups are doing to forward certain sets of beliefs vs. others.