WE'RE ALL UNDEREMPLOYED.

Fossil-Fuel Subsidies Are the Real Job Killers.

But we are the ones fighting to put people back to work and ensure that we have a sustainable economy for generations to come. The oil and gas industry may have an army of 786 lobbyists, but we tally in the hundreds of thousands.

Let us hope these people are not fighting for the economy that was sustained for generations that preceded.

That's a great-granduncle of mine, making a living selling Watkins products out of a horse-drawn carriage somewhere in Minnesota or the Dakotas, late in the nineteenth century, before the Standard Oil Trust and Henry Ford destroyed the jobs of all the coachmakers and farriers that kept Watkins on the roads.

 According to the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst, investment in a green infrastructure program would create nearly four times as many jobs as an equal investment in oil and gas.

That's a winning proposition, provided it's not a return to those thrilling days of yesteryear when sustainable technology meant recycling the manure onto the crops and the bones of the broken-down horses into adhesives.