Can President Barack Obama create more green jobs?

U.S. President Barack Obama faces many challenges in the second term as president. The challenge is not only to fight for gun ownership restrictions, Obama should be able to increase economic growth and job creation, even with the record had more to create "green jobs". Business and products produced from green jobs should certainly qualify environmentally friendly, both for consumption and renewable energy, solar power and so on.

President-elect Barack Obama has put energy policy at the forefront of his agenda. He says that his plan will boost our national security, help us achieve “energy independence,” reduce green house gas emissions, and promote job creation. Indeed, Obama vows to create around five million new jobs by increasing federal spending on renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and biofuels.

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President Barack Obama will renew his push to spur investment in renewable energy projects that create jobs as a key part of his second-term strategy for tackling climate change, a top White House policy adviser said on Thursday. Obama's first-term clean energy efforts were tarnished by failed loans to companies like Solyndra, the California solar panel maker that went bankrupt in 2011 after receiving more than $527 million in government backing.

But Obama has continued to argue that the United States cannot fall behind in a global clean energy race dominated by countries like South Korea, China, and Germany, which heavily subsidize their domestic industries. Obama made a passionate pledge in his second inaugural address to combat climate change, citing recent fires, drought and storms, "knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations."

In 2008 Barack Obama promised to create 5 million green jobs. He laid out a plan to invest $150 billion over 10 years that would advance a clean-energy economy built around biofuels, hybrid cars, low-emission coal plants, and renewable sources such as solar and wind. How many has he actually created?

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking green jobs two years ago, but it counts only how many existed as of the end of 2010. It doesn’t keep a running total of newly created jobs, so there’s no way to tell how many existed before Obama’s election. The Brookings Institution also has a tally, but it too goes only through 2010, and of the nearly 2.7 million green jobs it identifies, most were bus drivers, sewage workers, and other types of work that don’t fit the “green jobs of the future” that Obama imagined. The report does zero in on cleantech, which includes the wind, solar, fuel-cell, and smart-grid industries. In 2010, Brookings shows there were 184,699 such jobs nationwide—up 2,642 since the president took office in 2009.

In November 2010, the President’s Council of Economic Advisers said federal recovery spending had “saved or created” 225,000 clean-energy jobs, including “both the direct jobs of people involved in the construction of a particular project and also the jobs generated by the additional economic activity sparked by these projects.”

There’s no way to know whether this multiplier effect really resulted in the number the administration claims. But if you take it as true and generously assume similar growth for 2011 and 2012, that’s 675,000 jobs created at best—and 4,325,000 to go.

For a $9 billion investment, the administration created just over 900 new, permanent jobs. We could've had 20,000 jobs building a pipeline with not a dollar of taxpayer money being wasted.

According to the report by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, which is part of the U.S. Department of Energy, Section 1503 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka the stimulus), the part that covers green energy projects got some $9 billion in stimulus cash for 2009-11 and created a whopping 910 direct jobs — those involved in the ongoing operation of the wind and solar projects that were funded.

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Obama's plan must be approved by members of Congress so Obama can get enough budgets to create more jobs, especially green jobs. This obstacle must happen in Congress, particularly from members Congress from Republicans. The Americans who really need the work would support Obama. Obama and his team, a member of the Democratic Party and the American people must try to lobby and if necessary support through social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Google people and so on. If the U.S. economy grows, there must be a good effect for the global economy.

*) This article was enriched from a variety of sources such as: huffingtonpost.com, businessweek.com, american.com and news.investors.com.