Wednesday, September 15, 2010

On Freedom, Government, Regulation, & Flameouts

Please take the time to read this excellent post by The Silicon Graybeard --and don't skip the embedded links, either.

Consider how many will perish as the lights continue to dim.

Endarkenment, indeed.

2 comments:

  1. Thanks for the link and kind words.

    Your site has been on my daily read list for well over a year, now.

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  2. From cnsnews.com:

    Assistant Secretary of Energy Cathy Zoi said Thursday that the U.S. Department of Energy has a “mandate” to issue regulations to determine what household appliances are available to Americans in the future.
    Speaking at the inaugural meeting of the recently reestablished Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB), Zoi pointed to four tactics the Obama administration intended use to advance the “deployment of clean energy.” The first three were government subsidies for private-sector green energy projects, special tax incentives for green energy projects and low-interest government-backed loans for green energy projects.

    “The fourth one, which the secretary and I love,” said Zoi, “is where we have a mandate. Where we can actually just issue regulations and do market transformation.”

    ...
    “As the secretary [Chu] says, ‘We’re going to make people save money for themselves,’” Zoi said. “They haven’t dumped the dollar bills on the ground yet.”

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