Congress Critters Practicing Green Flight Patterns
by John Laumer, Philadelphia on 04. 7.07
Perhaps its the idea of Roasted World sinking in. Or, a desire to save money. In either case, US Senator James Inhofe deserves an honorary Tree Hugger award for co-sponsoring this bill. Via Federal Times - "Thousands of federal buildings would get more efficient lights and other equipment to reduce energy use under a Senate bill with bipartisan and White House support. Introduced March 27 by the unlikely duo of Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and James Inhofe, R-Okla., the legislation would require the General Services Administration to create a program to hasten installation of energy-efficient technology in more than 8,000 federal facilities it owns or leases. The bill would require GSA’s Public Buildings Service to improve insulation, update heating and cooling systems and add energy efficient lights at the buildings, with the goal of reducing their energy costs by 20 percent in five years."
"The bill’s nine co-sponsors say it will reduce emissions and cut costs. The cost-cutting consideration likely earned the support of Inhofe, the committee’s ranking member, who famously called global warming concerns, “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”
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Perhaps, like our president, Sen. Inhofe is a closet greenie.
While watching him question {scoff at} al Gore at the Senate hearings, he asked an honest question.
Are the American people ready to drastically change our lifestyles. This is what our elected officials have to deal with.
I feel it is now or {crash} later.
The beauty of greenhouse gas mitigation efforts is the myriad collateral benefits: save money, reduce traditional pollution, send less money to hostile foreign nations, reduce strain on our decrepit power grid, etc. Even if global warming is a hoax, or exaggerated, the other benefits make mitigation efforts totally worthwhile, so why not plan for the worst and hope for the best?