Does this Fat Make Me Look Green?

UPDATE: An IER expert writes in to temper my enthusiasm. "Hey...1.25 million gallons is 1/36000th of our diesel consumption, so if we just find 35,999 other species to grind up into our tanks, we're home free."

Enough with the green jobs - Right Turn - The Washington Post

As the Weekly Standard noted, even liberal media publications have figured out that green-job talk is mostly hype. (“Last month, the New York Times ran a story announcing that the ‘Number of Green Jobs Fails to Live Up to Promises.’ ”) But conservatives knew it was cotton-candy policy — colorful but without substance.

Politicians are not particularly well-equipped to identify market trends or spot investment opportunities. They are, however, very adept at rewarding politically connected friends and using taxpayer money to in essence reimburse their donors (and then some) for the generosity shown in helping the pols get elected. You dress it all up with high-minded phrases (“a 21st-century economy,” “green jobs,” “private-public partnerships”), and it sells like hot cakes. I mean who wants a 19th-century economy? And goodness knows we don’t want dingy jobs, we want bright green ones (with that little recycling logo on every product).

The lies we tell about green energy - Opinion - ReviewJournal.com

Sadly, the liberal idea of green energy investments is little more than a political agenda to spend money with no accountability, proportion or clear purpose.

And that trick grows weary on an American public suffering mightily through the Obama economy.

Where the Jobs Aren’t - NYTimes.com

The gigantic public investments in green energy may be stimulating innovation and helping the environment. But they are not evidence that the government knows how to create private-sector jobs.