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DOE and its minions are running out of stuff to regulate under existing energy efficiency statutes within EPCA. A move to carbon efficiency regulation vastly expands their regulatory empire. The IRA is providing obscene amounts...

Materials, costs and survivability for wind turbines on massive floating platforms defy reality

Clearly, the environmental impact of building, operating, and maintaining such an under-ocean grid will be monstrous.

“they make Americans use more energy and more water for the simple reason that purportedly ‘energy efficient’ appliances do not work.”

The past 12 months saw the collapse of several major offshore wind projects, signs of trouble in the electric vehicle (EV) market, layoffs at major environmentalist groups, a failed pressure campaign to kill a major energy...

We’ve seen them go after gas stoves…how many more home appliances will Americans eventually have to replace?

Basically, what we’re witnessing is the energy equivalent of ethnic cleansing under the guise of fighting the “existential threat” of anthropogenic global warming.

DOE wasn’t then and still isn’t now playing by the rules  to expand their regulatory domain over appliance efficiency  (and/or they change the rules as they deem fit on the go)...

These folks are really good at Power Point. The post Government and Energy: Witnessing the Process first appeared on Watts Up With That?.

It seems that almost everything that plugs in or fires up around the house is either subject to a pending regulation or soon will be

The spanking DOE took on the random base case modeling assignment approach provides an opportunity to argue for DOE to revise its entire consumer cost analysis approach. 

They’ve got a sole focus, and if that means destroying your lifestyle, they are only too glad to do it.

Calling DOE guilty of “nanny state” behavior insults the inherent maternal (but forgivable) instincts of nannies everywhere to make us do what’s best for us. 

The end product is an excellent illustration of why central planning does not work and can never work.

— For the most part, it is.