Keep A Weather Eye On This

Your tax dollars are at work again.  The first article linked describes the introduction of a stealth Green New Deal in a bill before Congress, one which will have drastic effects on everything from small businesses and homeowners to larger corporations and public facilities such as hospitals and libraries.

https://www.americanenergyalliance.org/2020/12/the-stealth-green-new-deal/

More on that issue is here:  https://www.americanenergyalliance.org/2020/03/the-american-energy-bureaucracy-act/

From the article: Additionally, a pernicious trend is growing where the billions in research money being shoveled to the Department of Energy has become a vehicle for a hidden revival of earmarks. Year over year, despite President Trump’s budget requests to shrink numerous bloated agencies at the Energy Department, Senate and House appropriators have increased funding at the department.  The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy alone has enjoyed a 25% increase in its budget since President Trump took office. Flush with new cash, Members of Congress then pressure the Department of Energy to fund specific projects for their state or district.  This has all the corruption aspects that let to a ban on explicit earmarks in legislation, but just with less transparency as the decisions are obscured by a screen of bureaucracy. – article

There is more here, https://www.americanenergyalliance.org/2020/09/the-energy-bill-is-back-with-bootleggers-and-baptists-onboard/  regarding replacing hydrofluorocarbon coolants with something more expensive, requiring a complete replacement of cooling systems at all levels of public use, including your very own HVAC system at home.  Note that large corporations like Honeywell and Chemours will vastly profit from this.  And the references to bootleggers and Baptists is a hoot. Its origin is in the article.

From the article: There are millions of air conditioning and cooling systems that will have to be upgraded or replaced, all at owners’ expense.  These costs are enormous.  And the profits that Honeywell, Chemours and AHRI members stand to reap are similarly hefty.  Yes, big business is happy for the government to ban competing chemicals.  Yes, HVAC installers are excited about the government mandating demand for their services.  But someone has to pay for all this rent-seeking. – article

Let’s dump the polite terms and call a spade a spade: it’s a ripoff meant to burden the taxpayers, whether they are private individuals, small businesses, or public facilities like hospitals and schools. The insidious part is that the cost to you and to the public will be hidden in your utility bills. Ask the people in California who have seen their utility bills rise exponentially because of the state’s addiction to utility taxes derived from so-called “green” energy sources. As I have found while keeping up with that state’s idiot governor’s antics, the residents lose their electric power on his whim, usually at night. The damage to the environment and to wildlife is inexcusable, but the Greenbeaners and politicians who suck up to them to get votes simply do not care – no matter what they spout in public.

Now, since I had a new furnace/AC HVAC system installed in November, and it was necessary as the old HVAC was near its end, the idea of going through another change for no reason other than “because WE said so” is not going to get support from someone like me.  But these buggers do not care what you’ve done to improve your home. They care only about what they think they can make you, the taxpayer, knuckle under to do, so that they can feel good about themselves.

Well, civilization was nice while it lasted, wasn’t it?

Category: "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", "Your Tax Dollars At Work", Global Warming