Energy Dept. misses all 34 efficiency deadlines.
By on Mar 2nd, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Energy Dept. misses all 34 efficiency deadlines.
“The government has missed all 34 deadlines set by Congress for requiring energy-efficiency standards on everything from home appliances to power transformers,” the Government Accountability Office reports. “Two-thirds of the deadlines have yet to be met, although many are more than a decade old. Because of the failures, consumers and corporations stand to pay tens of billions of dollars more for energy than they would have if the deadlines had been met.” Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) has details.
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The Energy Department lacks energy.
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:33 pmSuprise, Suprise….. when the current administration does not accept global warming as fact, why should the Energy Department take it serious?
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:34 pmYou know, if I consistently failed to turn in my reports I’d get FIRED. What political crony of Bush’s is running this department?
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:50 pm“we can’t be bothered with that right now – we’re too busy pissing billions of dollars away on a fantasy”
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:52 pmThis is completely unacceptable. Who or how can we hold them accountable though?
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:53 pmSomeone’s making that extra billions on it.
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:54 pmAutomatic profit for the energy producers: this is the point. If we had met our environmental standars, the energy companies would make billions of dollars less income. We can’t have that, can we?
Is anyone surprised that with an oil tycoon in the white house we are in Iraq and our oil industry is unregulated?
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:55 pmThis is completely unacceptable. Who or how can we hold them accountable though?
Comment by Roger_Roger
Hey, you’re the one with all the answers. What do you think ought to be done? Who is the captain of the ship these days? Where does the buck stop?
C’mon, this is an easy one….
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:57 pm#8 You missed my point. When the government fails to meet deadlines, how do we hold them accountable? I honestly don’t know outside of electing different people. TP says that many deadlines have been missed by over a decade meaning this has happened over multie administrations and congress’. The problem is when our leaders fail, there is nothing to hold them accountable. No slap on the wrist if you will. IN the end, that just breeds a situation where they don’t care.
Do you honestly think the new congress will be any better? What is holding them back from failing like Bush and the repugs did? Nothinggggg is the answer.
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:04 pmAt least Roger agrees the government is accountable to no-one and the system is broken.
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:05 pmCHIMPya’s so-called “energy department” is the only one in U.S. history that uses a HAMSTER RUNNING IN A TREADMILL to power its efficiency reviews!!!!!
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:21 pm#10 It is one of the mean reasons we need to limit government control and give it back to the private sector. At least the private sector is accountable to its shareholders which generally monitor a company with a fine tooth comb. When deadlines aren’t met that cost shareholders money, they get fixed ASAP and people are help accountable. In government, the bueracracy is acocuntable to no one. Why again to you want to turn out healthcare over to government? This is the same government who fails us on education, Social Secuirty, and funding for our troops. The have basically screwed up or done a half ass job on every major government program. It is time we reverse this and take this stuff away from government.
Being accountable to no one is always a bad thing, thus government is usually a bad thing.
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:21 pmHeckuva job.
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:26 pmDamnit, TP!! Stop deleting my comments on this thread!
March 2nd, 2007 at 5:01 pmGee, do you think that could have been the plan?
March 2nd, 2007 at 5:07 pmAh, pardon me, Jeffdalon, but who is the “oil tycoon” in the White House?? Bush holds the distinction of being the only person in history to drill for oil in west Texas and NEVER FIND ANY!! That does not a tycoon make!
March 2nd, 2007 at 5:09 pmCarter saved billions and billions with the 55mph speed limit – look at the gratitude he received.
March 2nd, 2007 at 5:11 pmGood, the welfare state has no business telling people what toaster they have to buy. To Hell with the nannie state.
March 2nd, 2007 at 5:43 pmI stand corrected. I meant to say: Is anyone surprised that with a wanna-be-but-total-failure-of-an-oil-tycoon-with-oil-tycoon-friends-in-this-and-many-other-countries-many-of-which-are-related-to-the-war-in-which-our-American-sons-and-daughters-are-dying in the white house that our oil industry is unregulated?
better?
March 2nd, 2007 at 9:13 pm#19 We actually have the most regulated Oil industry in the world. You should see Oil companies from other countries. Hell, our Oil companies can barely drill Oil on American Soil these days. Wanna know whos drilling the Oil off the FLorida coast? What you say? We don’t allow Oil drilling off the FLorida coast!!!
You are correct. We in America are so dumb, we banned drilling for Oil off the Florida coast. Sadly, the small minds of our politicians failed to relize that Oil is a global commodity. Our friends in Cuba of course realized this and sold drilling rights to China. Now sadly, China’s Oil companies do not have to follow to strict rules and regulations of American Oil companies.
So, our stupidity now has a foreign country with limited regulations and a horrible environmental record drilling Oil just off the florida coast. They gulp up this valuable resource and damage OUR environment much more then if we did it with cleaner more regulated American companies. In the end, we get absolutely nothing for it other then a probable environmental mess and the loss of the potenial energy we could have gained.
Our Oil companies are forced to drill in places like NIgeria. We force them to do it because we Americans don’t care half as much about other countries we can’t see everyday. The whole things is very sad.
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March 3rd, 2007 at 1:09 pm