Once it seemed environmentalist-types and I (a capitalist tree hugger with a woodstove) had something in common: a desire to end corporate welfare.

Apparently many environmentalists were simply upset with who got corporate welfare, not against it on principle. Or, perhaps, the green today is a different hue. As the Oct. 24, 2007 Willamette Week notes, the authors of Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility advocate "working with corporations and making a $300 billion federal investment in green technologies." As Cato president Ed Crane and Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope described a 2002 energy bill, such an idea will be an "avalanche of welfare for the well-connected."