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Notable Quote – There’s a reason we don’t need to rejoin the Paris Accord

It is because we have become MORE efficient at our energy usage than the rest of the world: In the ten years from 2008, America’s economy grew by 15 per cent but its energy use fell by 2 per cent. This is not because the American economy is generating fewer products; it’s producing more. It …

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Where I Give Lessons on Efficiency to Senator Jeanne Shaheen

New Hampshire Senator Shaheen would like me to sign a petition in support of Senate Bill S1000, a piece of legislation she is sponsoring with Senator Rob Portman.  From her email…. While disagreements remain about the right approach to fixing our nation’s energy problems, there are also areas of broad agreement that Congress can act …

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For Repeal of RGGI

If energy efficiency is beneficial to people, governments, businesses, etc., then why do the rest of us have to subsidize their usage?
I believe the savings claims from energy efficiency are BOGUS.
CFLs contain mercury, a known poison, especially harmful to children. CFLs will put mercury into tens of millions of homes most of which will never know how to treat breakage safely causing untold negative consequences to people, our environment, and our water supply.
Governments around the world have been subsidizing the investigation into global warming to the tune of billions of dollars every year for many years. Yet, the global warming advocates can’t prove man-made global warming, the best they have done so far is to publish lies, and to try to prevent people who disagree from being heard.