A major argument people use to promote renewable electricity mandates is that the mandates can create jobs. Reports from 10 years ago reveal that trying to create jobs through renewable subsidies had proven to be a failure. In Spain, for example, it was estimated that 2.2 jobs were lost as an opportunity for creating one job in the renewable sector. In Germany, per worker subsidies in the solar industry were as high as $240,000.¹ In Italy, the same amount of capital that created one job in the green sector, would create almost 5 jobs in the general economy.. Researchers also found that the vast majority of green jobs created were temporary. Most of the jobs, at least 60%, were for installers or other temporary work that would disappear once a photovoltaic panel, or a wind tower is operative.

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