Biden and his Greens have a plan for the newly unemployed pipe fitters: they can go to law school

Off to Harvard

The shutdown of Keystone XL will immediately throw thousands of “burly men” out of work, our new masters admit, but promise that they’ll easily find “good-paying, green, union jobs” in the new AOC economy.

Uh huh. And what about their soon-to-be-unemployed peers?

The Keystone project is just a sliver of the total number of oil industry workers slated for unemployment: the industry itself counts 1,235,000 jobs, the virulent anti-fracking group Food and Water Watch says it’s “only” 685,534. Use either number; it’s still a lot of people to place in $100,000 “green” jobs.

WThose jobs don’t exist, and won’t appear, if at all, for years.

This flawed assumption [that there are great jobs waiting] emerges when you put people who know nothing about the trades and have never had a job that didn’t require sitting at a desk in charge. Learning a new skilled trade is not the same as learning a new version of Excel …….

This is an unworkable answer for an additional reason. As President Biden should have learned during the “shovel-ready jobs” phase of the Obama administration, infrastructure projects can take years from the time the funds are allocated:

William Ibbs, a professor of civil engineering at the University of California at Berkley, was quoted in a September 26, 2011, Politico article saying, “As a rule of thumb, you’re looking at three years for a project, really going from the time the federal government says we have the money and want to spend it…The politicians really don’t understand how cumbersome the process is these days. Environmental permitting, especially on road projects can take years. You’re hiring attorneys, not really shoveling a lot of dirt.”

If environmental permitting on roads can take years, wait until you see what it takes to do wind or solar farms …..

In Maine, a proposed transmission line to carry “green” hydro-electric power from Canada to Massachusetts has been stalled for 10 years by law suits and regulatory delays. Last week, after every possible environmental agency permit, state and federal, had finally been granted, been agency, state and federal, a federal judge granted still another injunction. Because construction can only be conducted during winter, when the ground is frozen, the work that had just become is now shut down, and probably can’t be restarted until next January at the soonest. This for a corridor 75-yards wide through uninhabited, second-growth timber land owned by the power company itself. This will be repeated for every solar farm, every windmill collection, across the country.

And wait for the uproar over lithium mines, necessary to power all those new electric cars.

But that’s okay, Biden is extending food stamps and unemployment benefits to everyone. '“We’ll turn them all into beggars ‘cause they’re easier to please.”