Clean energy and jobs? Once Upon a Time, there were coal miners who were well paid in large part because a previous generation paid a price in blood for unionization. They heap the coal onto railroad cars - also operated, quite often by well paid union members. After that, the coal is off-loaded by well paid utility workers into boilers to make electricity.
Then they installed windmills and after the temp jobs in their construction ended, all of the above got fired and an IT guy manages loads on a computer. Once a year or so, a maintenance guy works on the windmill. And that's that. In the years that followed, pundits and other famous commentators expressed puzzlement as to why so many voters were so angry. A mystery, they said.....
