Light From a Two-Watt Bulb
I`m for anything that reduces taxpayer expenditures:
Stop the presses: Senator Barbara Boxer of California has a good idea. Ms. Boxer, who heads the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, suggested last week that a first step in reducing greenhouse gases would be to require that federal buildings use more efficient light bulbs, and ask federal bureaucrats to turn off their computers at night. ‘Don’t you think it’s time the federal government were a model of energy efficiency?’ she asks. We warmly agree, not least since the United States Government is the largest single consumer of energy in the United States. It’s also one of the most inefficient energy users. According to a 1999 report by the Alliance to Save Energy, the ‘federal government, consumes about 32% more energy per square foot than the nation’s building stock at large.’ This inefficiency costs taxpayers an estimated $1 billion a year. In Al Gore’s phrase, Uncle Sam’s leaving one giant ‘carbon footprint.’ Of course, it follows from all this that the best way to make the federal government more energy efficient would be to undertake a government-wide policy of... lights out, permanently. Save the environment; kill a federal program. Start, needless to say, with the Department of Energy, operating at an annual cost of $22 billion. The U.S. Government Accountability Office reports that from 1980 to 1996 Energy frittered away more than $10 billion on programs that were ‘terminated before completion.’ On behalf of combating climate change, America could live without DOE’s Energy Hog Webgame for kids, which cost taxpayers $325,000. The Senate Government Reform Committee has identified more than $200 billion of budget savings, enough to easily balance the budget, by eliminating redundant and wasteful federal activities. They’d have to open that nuclear-waste dump at Yucca Mountain to bury all the turned-off lightbulbs and computers. At this rate, Barbara Boxer might eclipse Al Gore as the Democrat who saved the planet. The key to success is one wonderful word ‘efficient’.
The Wall Street Journal
Courtesy of the Federalist Patriot.
Stop the presses: Senator Barbara Boxer of California has a good idea. Ms. Boxer, who heads the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, suggested last week that a first step in reducing greenhouse gases would be to require that federal buildings use more efficient light bulbs, and ask federal bureaucrats to turn off their computers at night. ‘Don’t you think it’s time the federal government were a model of energy efficiency?’ she asks. We warmly agree, not least since the United States Government is the largest single consumer of energy in the United States. It’s also one of the most inefficient energy users. According to a 1999 report by the Alliance to Save Energy, the ‘federal government, consumes about 32% more energy per square foot than the nation’s building stock at large.’ This inefficiency costs taxpayers an estimated $1 billion a year. In Al Gore’s phrase, Uncle Sam’s leaving one giant ‘carbon footprint.’ Of course, it follows from all this that the best way to make the federal government more energy efficient would be to undertake a government-wide policy of... lights out, permanently. Save the environment; kill a federal program. Start, needless to say, with the Department of Energy, operating at an annual cost of $22 billion. The U.S. Government Accountability Office reports that from 1980 to 1996 Energy frittered away more than $10 billion on programs that were ‘terminated before completion.’ On behalf of combating climate change, America could live without DOE’s Energy Hog Webgame for kids, which cost taxpayers $325,000. The Senate Government Reform Committee has identified more than $200 billion of budget savings, enough to easily balance the budget, by eliminating redundant and wasteful federal activities. They’d have to open that nuclear-waste dump at Yucca Mountain to bury all the turned-off lightbulbs and computers. At this rate, Barbara Boxer might eclipse Al Gore as the Democrat who saved the planet. The key to success is one wonderful word ‘efficient’.
The Wall Street Journal
Courtesy of the Federalist Patriot.
posted by Timothy Birdnow | 5:48 AM
2 Comments:
Want energy conservation?Wire the jaws of the Congress to generators and capture all the hot air that they release.
Hey came across this:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/robinson1.html
Quite a lot thats in here you have covered . Still an excellent piece.
Thanks Mike; that WAS a good piece!
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