Posted on 08/14/2013 9:33:55 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
'Right Kinds of Behavior' Needed for 'Clean Energy Future,' Says Interior Secretary
August 14, 2013 - 11:13 AM By Susan Jones
(CNSNews.com) - The "new energy future" will require the federal government to encourage "the right kinds of behavior," Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told a clean energy summit in Nevada on Tuesday.
"When you are getting into a new energy future, you really benefit from having the support of states -- and the federal government encouraging the right kinds of behavior and encouraging those incentives (for solar panel installation), she said.
Jewell mentioned the "right" kind of behavior twice in her speech, without specifically saying what it means. But she did give some hints.
In the first reference, Jewell was discussing the various ways that REI reduced its carbon footprint when she chaired the company. She said REI's carbon-reduction efforts began as "random acts of kindness -- things like encouraging people, including employees, to ride bikes to work; using green energy where we could, recycling and those things...."
Jewell's second reference to the right kind of behavior came at the end of her speech:
"If we're going to address climate change, we need to pull together as leaders to make it happen -- leaders in business, leaders in utilities, leaders in states, leaders in private industry, leaders in government, and leaders as individuals. We need to wake up and look at the landscapes and admit what's happening around us. We need to ask ourselves, how can we be part of the solution? How can we provide incentives to reward and incent the right behavior? How can we hold each other accountable?"
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Next anyone using a wood fireplace or stove must be ferreted out
Well you heard Ostumbles speech in Africa. Just everybody can’t expect to have a new car or live in a big house.
It looks like you can’t have a car at all now and next you need to live in multi-family housing. No more single family homes. You don’t need electrical power when you are asleep. Lights out from 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM. That smart meter was installed for a reason.
I thank my fellow FReepers that supported the policies that have generally empowered these nanny state nudgers. Nudge, nudge and nudge, if that fails they will use the point of a gun to force behaviour requirements!
Thank you to those of you that supported the usurpation of private property rights via the smoking bans. The marxists appreciate your support.
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That would be about 16 of these:
or 17% of this:
Read an article this weekend on your specific points.
The problem today is that none of today's appliances do what they're intended to do.
For instance, we don't have toilets that flush, we have "toilets that save water".
We don't have dishwashers that wash dishes, we have "Cost-conscious, energy-saving, water-conserving appliances". And so on.
Sez me, I'd rather have something that I needed to use once, that did the job right.
“Calling the ghost of Ayne Rand. Please send us John Galt.”
I am John Galt!
It is a “kindness” to encourage me to ride a bike to work?!?
Liberalism is a mental disease!
And, I’ll bet she found a way to use other people’s money to finance that “kindness”
Liberalism is definitely a mental disease, and its sufferers are addicted to sponging, as well.
Wowsers, that’s frightening.
It IS true! Everyone DOES have a double!
Dusty, "re-education camps" are sooooooo 20th century. No, we will be "enrolled" in "Re-Patriotization Day Spas" and "Environmental Rehabilitation Seminars". See you at a meet-and-greet underneath the Diversity Pavilion, comrade.
Rofl, great connection — sooooooo true!
I can’t stand to read this crap. I’m gonna just go through and look at the pichers :o)
Well, it was so good it deserved to be seen on this page, too! Is that all right?
“ADMINGIRL”, lol
Thank you so much, sweet cyn!
musicman comes up with the best graphics.
He searches the Internet for them.
(It was posted a while back by another Freeper. I “borrowed” it.)
Some of our streetlights are off now. They used to be all on all the time.
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