California billionaire and extreme “green” hypocrite Tom Steyer is urging President Obama to veto the Keystone XL bill “without delay” and he wants his supporters to join him. The House of Representatives passed the Keystone bill yesterday, sending the bill to Obama’s desk.
Steyer’s super PAC NextGen Climate responded by sending an email asking recipients to support Obama’s decision to veto the Keystone bill, dropping all pretenses that any decision had yet to be made. By far the most absurd aspect of the email is the claim that extreme environmental policies—like those Steyer pushes—would create “hundreds of thousands of good jobs.”
Far from creating “hundreds of thousands” of jobs, studies have proven that the extreme green policies destroy jobs. Jay Inslee’s cap-and-tax scheme—which certainly has Steyer’s stamp of approval—would reduce the average annual employment by approximately 56,000 jobs over the next 20 years. Nearly 6,000 of those jobs would be in the manufacturing sector.
Perhaps rather than continue dispersing his ridiculous talking points, Steyer would do better to worry about damage control for one of his West Coast charges—Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber. Kitzhaber is currently embroiled in a scandalous case of corruption that, as Shift reported, touches Steyer.
The Energy Foundation, a large San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that promotes energy efficiency and renewable energy, confirmed it footed some of the bills for a fellowship granted to Kitzhaber’s girlfriend, Cylvia Hayes. Hayes collected $118,000 in previously undisclosed payments from an out-of-state clean energy group while she was advising the governor on clean energy policy.
Interestingly enough, the Energy Foundation receives financial endowments from the Tomkat Charitable Trust. Tomkat is Steyer’s primary personal vehicle for pumping extreme environmental organizations with money. So, it is probable that Steyer funded Hayes’ “fellowship” as she advised Kitzhaber on… environmental policies in Oregon, including the fuel mandate that Steyer is pushing up and down the West Coast.
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