Posted on 02/10/2009 8:30:27 AM PST by John Semmens
President Obama has asked the U.S. Department of Energy to tighten up regulations aimed at discouraging wasteful use of energy. Measures under consideration include remote thermostat monitoring, higher taxes on fuel, and an “energy-saver-of-the-month” lottery.
“Too many people are frivolously consuming an excessive quantity of this precious resource,” Obama lamented. “We need better incentives to deter unnecessary use. The certain knowledge that the government will be checking on your electricity bill, a higher price at the gas pump, or the chance to have your name drawn for a large cash prize could modify behavior in the right direction.”
“It’s not so hard to save energy,” Obama continued. “For example, instead of firing up the oven to cook a meal you could go out for sushi. Michelle, the kids and I have often done this. We saved even more energy by carpooling to the restaurant.”
In related news, Obama rebuffed criticism of the high thermostat settings in the White House since he took office as “racist.” “With roots in Africa and an upbringing in balmy Indonesia and Hawaii, I need warmer temperatures,” the President insisted, explaining that Illinois’ cold climate was largely responsible for all those “present votes.” “I was too cold to lift a finger. So the Sergeant-at-Arms merely recorded me ‘present,’” he said.
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Boy - this is almost as ironic as Ahmadinejad saying nice things about Israel...
Obama is pushing for the largest piece of waste and pork to every be thrust on future generations of taxpayers - and he wants to talk about cutting waste?
Amazing what stupidity comes out of an empty suit.
The Energy Department can get rid or waste, alright. Starting in the Oval Office.
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Obama, the Master Plan.. and how we will lose everything:
http://www.archive.org/download/InOurHan1950_3/InOurHan1950_3.avi
Let’s get the Oval Office Thermostat on the web so we can all see it!
I read the headline, thought this has to be satire because there isn’t anything 0bama has done but increase waste and then looked at the source.
hehe.
I know how the US energy department can reduce waste.
Let us start reprocessing our spent nuclear fuel like other countries.
“instead of firing up the oven to cook a meal you could go out for sushi”
Will this include the carp in my local pond? LOL
that idea is not entirely satire. Some enterprising GOP member of Congress could propose in the next budget that Obama’s thermostat be wired to a remote monitor that could be accessed by the public via a website.
There are a couple of different interpretations of what constitutes “waste”. One is the refuse left when in the course of consumption, there are pieces and shreds that fall to the ground as we proceed. Another is to consume the energy available far in excess of the amount necessary to provide for the very most basic needs. The first definition is easily picked up and recycled in some manner, including conversion directly into energy. In that event, it no longer constitutes waste, but a smart and ecologically sensible means of turning that which could have been a negative into an overall positive.
The “excessive’ consumption of energy, which in the eyes of the failing nascent obma regime, is any amount greater than to keep the very minimum necessary to sustain life, and is in reality the engine that drives prosperity. It seems some folks cannot STAND prosperity, and will do their darnedest to prevent that plague from befalling ANYBODY.
Except Obama, whose T-stat was set at 72F. I'm sure his chilrun are not freezing or will not sweat to death either.
Measures under consideration include remote thermostat monitoring, higher taxes on fuel....
Obama is a control freak using a false premise to seize intimate control of peoples lives.
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