It’s silly season in the run-up to this week’s State of the Union address, in which President Obama will do everything he can to pretend that “green” bills are really “jobs” bills; consider that the cap-and-trade bills offer two years of assistance for the workers that piece of legislation would put out of work.

So it came to pass that five Democrat senators have — per today’s Greenwire, just sent a letter to Obama boasting of their pet projects’ inefficiency, naturally in the context of calling for more taxpayer subsidies. Signed by Sens. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, Michael Bennet of Colorado, Ron Wyden of Oregon, and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Greenwire writes that the letter “highlights that solar technology ‘creates more jobs per megawatt of energy produced than any other form of energy.’”

That’s the thing about “green jobs.” They require more man-hours per kilowatt hour (or similar measure of energy created). Our five Democratic senators seem not to notice that this is the definition of “inefficiency.” Which is why, as the same story notes, Obama recently said that until his most recent infusion of subsidies the wind and solar industries were “about to collapse.”

Such a bargain. Can’t imagine why there is insufficient private capital to keep these bubbles afloat. But wait til these mostly temporary jobs are unionized — as is the objective of the “blue-green alliance.” Talk about a race to the bottom currently underway for biggest entitlement boondoggle ever.