Two jobs lost for every one job created in the solar and wind industries sounds about right. Expanding commercialization of these high-cost renewable energies will lead to even more unemployment. Moreover, it is only a leap of faith that mandating and subsidizing these industries will lead to the development of cost-competitive technologies in the future. Wind and solar belong mostly in research labs and demo projects. The problem is innovation is limited since Europe has no real risk capital markets (the Spanish energy sec is wrong that this is the one industry they entered early since they mostly copied efforts in California during the 80s) and the US energy industries are monopolized by fossil fuel interests. Both the EU and US need free markets.

Spain, Germany and other nations that appropriately implement FITs (feed-in tariffs) or RECs (renewable energy credits) are creating healthy manufacturing economies rather than remaining addicted to petro-banking warfare and other self-destructive habits.

The purpose of genuine economics isn't to create more counter-productive "jobs" and corporate-state bureaucracy with taxpayer subsidized banks issuing debt "money" from nothing. The purpose of real economics is to enhance the quality of life for everyone in the most efficient way in a free and fair market.

If corporate subsidies had been eliminated long ago, we'd be using mostly renewable energy today.

Please familiarize yourself with real-world economists such as Henry George, Buckminster Fuller, and the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation.

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Renewable energy yes, but I doubt it would be the renewable energies preferentially mandated and subsidized by US pols, enviros and utility monopolies. Nation needs free markets, no subsidies, especially no mandates.