Fracking, Earth Day, and Barack Obama: New at Reason

What do Earth Day, fracking, and President Obama have to do with each other?

Marian Tupy writes:

I thought of our president on Earth Day not only because of his hypocritical and misguided intervention in the electoral process of another sovereign democracy, but because of another promise he made when running for his first term in the White House. I hope some of you still remember those 5 million “green jobs” Obama promised to create in order to “stimulate job growth” and America’s transition to green energy. Obama’s failure to deliver but a small fraction of those jobs must surely rank—along with the botched launch of Obamacare—as one of his bigger domestic failures.

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