Remember John Kerry’s make solar panel remarks two years ago?

President Biden is vowing prosperous futures for union and blue-collar fossil fuel workers thanks to his clean energy agenda, but a study suggests that the promise of a smooth transition could go up in smoke.

Less than 1% of those working in “dirty” carbon-intensive industries such as fossil fuels transitioned to green jobs such as solar, wind or electric vehicles from 2020 through 2022, according to a research paper disseminated last week by the nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research.

Workers who are older or lack college degrees are significantly less likely to take green energy jobs. Those ages 25 to 34 account for 30 times the number of transitions of dirty-to-green jobs as those 55 to 64.

This study does call into question Biden’s claims that his so-called green energy agenda will bring about jobs in industries focused on climate change. The Washington Times did interview Mark Curtis who is an associate professor of economics at Wake Forest University.

Curtis said Biden’s jobs program could be achieved in the long run, but the data doesn’t support that contention now. The ones being employed in the green sector now, Curtis says, are younger and more educated a demographic that would vote for Biden anyway.

Since the green energy jobs Biden wants to see created require a bit higher level of training and education, it is abundantly clear this is also one other way His Fraudulency would like to force people to get more education. But education does not guarantee success and people who want to work in the green sector should not have to be somehow forced to give up their line of work to fulfill some sort of planner’s fantasy in the first place.

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