Posted on 12/09/2013 6:05:07 AM PST by rktman
In an executive order released on 5 December, President Barack Obama has tripled the mandate for use of renewable sources of energy for federal agencies by 2020.
According to the executive order federal agencies will have to replace 20% of the electricity they use with renewable sources by 2020—up from a 2005 mandate of 7.5% by 2013. This includes all federal agencies both civilian and military.
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....Because we have all sorts of money, right? Sheesh.
We could save a lot of electricity and gas expense but shutting down big portions of the bloated bureaucracy. No solar panels or wind farms required - just shut the damned thing down.
Conventional heating works too. Start by burning those massive copies of the AHCA and other socialist regulatory mayhem that hurts people and business. I’ll supply the marshmallows.
Maybe it will force staffing cuts to offset the cost. Solar panels don’t get a pension plan.
Flashlights in every office instead of lights,
And of course they will have to use rechargeable batteries.
Yes, somehow, this is a money laundering scheme to get taxpayer dollars into the pockets of democrat donors.
It always is.
Solar re-chargers of course.
You dream. It’ll just raise taxes.
Wishful thinking on a Monday morning :-)
A lot of us get up that way, wishful and hopeful. It usually passes by the time we get to work or at least before noon. The reality of these times has a way of doing that.
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