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Different Shades of Green
By: Thomas Tanton
1.21.2008
The environmental community is exhibiting concerns about the pitfalls of biofuels, that I and PRI have been pointing out for several years. This past weekend, both the venerable New York Times and Sacramento Bee had feature articles on the environmental and human downsides to the expanded demand for biofuels. The fuel's expansion comes with devastating environmental damages, especially the destruction of rain forest and important animal habitat. And the cause? Heavy, and increasingly obese, mandates and subsidies foisted on energy markets by well-intentioned but myopic government agencies. Those mandates require certain percentages of biofuels, and the subsidies use taxpayer funds to cover over half the cost of production.
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More on Thermostats
By: Thomas Tanton
1.15.2008
The North County Times, in northern San Diego, reports that the CEC has backed off a proposal written about here last week. In an about-face, the California Energy Commission plans to give customers final control over the energy saving thermostats that are to be required in new homes, Claudia Chandler, the commission's assistant executive director, said Friday.
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Let's Move Inside
By: Thomas Tanton
1.8.2008
Perhaps recognizing that political efforts to control the climate is a futile endeavor, regulators seem bent on controlling comfort anyway. California utilities would dictate the temperature of new homes and commercial buildings with a radio-controlled thermostat, under a proposed state update to building energy efficiency standards.
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