Posted on 12/05/2013 5:55:53 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
President Obama on Thursday will order the federal government to use renewables for 20 percent of its electricity needs by 2020.
The Associated Press first reported the news and obtained a copy of the executive order to be released Thursday.
The White House confirmed the report to The Hill.
It will nearly triple the use of the federal government's renewable sources and apply to all federal agencies, civilian and military.
"The federal government occupies nearly 500,000 buildings, operates 600,000 vehicles and purchases more than $500 billion per year in goods and services," the AP reported late Wednesday.
"The government currently has a goal of using 7.5 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, but Obama said recent increases in renewable energy supplies make the new 20 percent goal achievable by 2020," the news service added.
Leaders in China must be laughing at us. Using the most expensive method for electricity.
Exactly what an enemy would do if they worked their way into our govt.
This will put a dangerous drag on our military effectiveness.
They’re laying off 20% of the pentagon but can shell out for this kind of crap.
LOL....good. It’s about time the feral bureaucrats sweat in the summer and freeze their butts off in the winter like the rest of us who have to pay our own electricity bills. I’d hate to depend on windmills for that power, though.
“Mastermind” Obama’s dictates sound laughingly like the old failed Soviet 5-Year-Plans.
Obama may be surprised that any order issued by him can be rescinded by future Presidents. With any luck we will eventually get one that understands we do not have an energy crisis, we have an environmentalist crisis.
But are the ever? Will Senator Cruz keep a list of all of Obama's executive orders and rescind 90% of them within his first week, along with a notation on which ones he believes are illegal and which are merely stupid?
Who knows, one may just surprise us.
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