What Green Energy Really Costs -- Not a Bakken Story

I travel a lot and spend a fair amount of time across the freeway from the Port of Los Angeles / Long Beach, the nation's busiest port, so I am always interested in stories about the port.

Here's another story -- how "green energy" affects the working, blue collar, lower middle class.

The link is broken, sorry. I will try to find another source. For now, this link is as good as any. Bottom line: environmental elitists have destroyed the American dream for blue collar workers.

The great Central Valley of California has never been an easy place. Dry and almost uninhabitable by nature, the state's engineering marvels brought water down from the north and the high Sierra, turning semi-desert into some of the richest farmland in the world.

Yet today, amid drought conditions, large parcels of the valley – particularly on its west side – are returning to desert; and in the process, an entire economy based on large-scale, high-tech agriculture is being brought to its knees. You can see this reality in the increasingly impoverished rural towns scattered along this region, places like Mendota and Avenal, Coalinga and Lost Hills.

In some towns, unemployment is now running close to 40%. Overall, the water-related farming cutbacks could affect up to 300,000 acres and could cost up to 80,000 jobs.
However, the depression conditions in the great valley reflect more than a mere water shortage. They are the direct result of conscious actions by environmental activists to usher in a new era of scarcity.