Posted on 01/26/2007 6:30:16 AM PST by kellynla
See Post #9
Do you think you might be a little more specific. LOL
Sure, but I'd have to charge you at my usual hourly rate.
money talks and BS walks...
if you're gonna throw stats around,
ya have to be prepared to post the links to the sources
and I don't mean just the link to the Department of Energy website. LMAO
Well..... I didn't save the links so your just going to have to take my word for it. (snicker)
"fiscal year 2004 alone, EERE awarded approximately $506 million in financial assistance.
DOE announced on January 23rd that it will issue $17 million in solicitations to support technologies to improve vehicle efficiency and use of E85 fuel.Congress and the President Encourage Agencies to Use ESPCs.
Congress and the President encourage agencies to use ESPCs to finance and implement efficiency improvements and meet their energy goals. Legislation authorizing ESPCs was enacted in 1992, and DOE promulgated regulations for their use in 1995. Super ESPCs were placed to streamline the process in 1998, and ESPCs were reauthorized through 2016 by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
More than 400 ESPC projects have been awarded by 19 different federal agencies in 46 states. $1.9 billion has been invested in U.S. federal facilities through ESPCs, saving 16 trillion Btu annually, equivalent to the energy used by a city of about 450,000.
The State Energy Program (SEP) provides grants to states and directs funding to state energy offices from technology programs in DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. States use grants to address their energy priorities and program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy efficiency."
you don't reeeeeely expect me to believe that all of this just rolled right off your
"memory" now do yaaaaaaa...
I was born in the morning but it wasn't yesterday morning...
I come from the Ronald Reagan school..."trust but verify."
You must be out of the loop, I thought everybody knew this stuff.
Pithy excerpts
"This is nonsense. As my colleague Robert J. Samuelson demonstrated this week, biofuels will barely keep up with the increase in gasoline demand over time. They are a huge government bet with goals and mandates and subsidies that will not cure our oil dependence or even make a significant dent in it."
[and I like biofuels!]
more: "There are three serious things we can do now: Tax gas. Drill in the Arctic. Go nuclear."
[I don't agree. Modest conservation measures could save a lot more oil than Arctic drilling would provide, and make a difference a lot quicker. And Samuelson advocated CAFE standards, not a gas tax. A high gas tax would mess up the economy.]
But: "He did bring up, to enthusiastic congressional applause, global warming. No one has a remotely good idea about how to make any difference in global warming without enlisting China and India, and without destroying the carbon-based Western economy. The obvious first step, however, is an extremely powerful source of energy that produces not an ounce of carbon dioxide: nuclear."
That I agree with.
The Democrats tax, subsidize, socialize, and regulate. It's in their genes.
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