From Planet Moron:

A new promotional campaign, "Carbon Caps = Hard Hats," began blanketing the airwaves and print media this past weekend, headlined by the colorful mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, John Fetterman.

As the mayor explains, the economics are "simple." All you have to do to create lots of high-paying jobs is to have the government mandate that cheap, efficient forms of energy be made as expensive to produce as far more costly, inefficient forms of energy.

"Take the wind turbine," Fetterman point out. "A typical wind turbine has 8,000 parts and is made of 250 tons of steel. Somebody's got to make that steel, fabricate those parts, assemble those parts...

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