Posted on 02/02/2016 10:29:57 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign Tuesday rolled out a plan to increase building energy efficiency standards as a way to cut emissions and save on energy costs.
The plan, her campaign said Tuesday, looks to improve building codes, provide more information about buildings' energy usage and expand appliance energy labeling as ways to reduce energy consumption.
The proposal would save households and businesses $70 billion, or $600 per household, annually if implemented, Clinton's campaign said, and reduce taxpayer spending on energy in federal buildings by $8 billion. Its goal is a one-third reduction in energy waste within ten years.
The far-reaching plan also looks to lock in state policies it says are effective at cutting energy usage. The proposal features a host of grant programs, including those for cities to implement building codes that advance energy efficiency improvements and for states that phase out fuel oil and propane as home heating methods during the winter.
The latter proposal, especially, looks to appeal to New Hampshire voters, who go to the polls next week to cast votes in the Democratic presidential primary.
Clinton's website notes that nearly 70 percent of New Hampshire families utilize oil or propane for home heating, something that leads to both air pollution and swings in home heating costs. Her plan will help with both, the campaign said.
The energy efficiency plan is the latest plank of Clinton's climate change agenda, which she began to unveil last summer.
"Deploying more clean energy isn't enough-we also need to cut energy consumption, which will save families and businesses money and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change," said a fact sheet about the plan.
In time, we too can look like Venezuela and their nationalize oil sector - dead in the water.
Hillarypower.
Yeah.
Just go ahead mandate the rules.
Can’t actually install the systems, and the energy “savings” assumptions are bullshiiite, but go ahead and mandate them anyway.
How much population reduction will be required to reach this goal?
Will the White House reduce its energy consumption by 1/3? Operation of Air Force One is - of course - included in the White House energy budget.
Quit posting garbage from The Hill. Why do you want to disseminate left wing propaganda here?
Hillaary won’t be around to see it!
Yeah, “ more information about buildings’ energy usage and expanded appliance energy labeling” are going to decrease energy waste by one-third — if combined with efficiencies in harnessing the energy of unicorn flatulence and the extraction of electromagnetic power from rainbows.
Kill the power to all of her houses and al gore’s too..
easy cut.. problem solved. next problem?
Will we still be allowed to burn manure to keep from freezing in the winter? Fortunately Hillary will provide a abundance of it.
And what is wrong with propane? Sure, it is more expensive than plumbed in natural gas, but I've never heard any complaints about it being dirty like coal or fuel oil. Maybe she just doesn't like any fuel you can store locally to keep from being frozen at utility company or government whim.
if she would just stop breathing for a couple of hours...the planet might survive....
hey Hillary. How about 30% more honesty in the next 30 days?
As we are finding out locally...energy conservation and reduced use has the power company restructuring service costs and variable rates for an overall INCREASE in costs. So, where’s the savings, Hil-liar-y?
Is it past your bedtime?
She's following the Hillarycare-Obamacare blueprint:
"Your healthcare costs will drop by $2500 a year."
Relevant story that indicates the top down approach of the left - if they wanted to nationalize building codes this is how they will start and it will increase costs to consumers and businesses.
Based on the comments even the Hill readers are not buying it.
The Clintons are too big to prosecute - the more equal pigs.
“The proposal would save households and businesses $70 billion, or $600 per household, annually if implemented, Clinton’s campaign said, and reduce taxpayer spending on energy in federal buildings by $8 billion”
Bull. The real results if implemented will be more financial costs and less freedom.
Related:
“......The company noted that in 2015 nationwide LED bulb sales were at 15 percent; the New York Times adds that at the same time in 2014 LEDs made up less than 5 percent of bulb sales. “The time for LED is now,” said GE lighting chief operating officer John Strainic in the statement. “LED is a platform that can replace every other light source that we have developed over 130 years.”
GE also noted that come 2017, it will be more difficult for CFLs to receive Energy Star ratings from the Environmental Protection Agency. Instead of letting the technology die slowly, the company is taking a hard line....”
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