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Obama energy secretary to Americans: Stop acting like teenagers!
By: Mark Tapscott
Editorial Page Editor
09/21/09 5:59 PM EDT
Asked at a seminar on reconstructing America's electrical grid about the Obama administration's efforts to persuade people to conserve energy, Chu said “the American public…just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act. The American public has to really understand in their core how important this issue is,” according to The Wall Street Journal.
And, notes the Journal's Ian Talley, the Obama administration is spending big to tell us what we should be doing on the energy issues:
Chu and Jackson must not have heard about the Treasury Department's admission late Friday that adoption of the Obama-Waxman-Markey anti-global warming energy bill will cost as much as $300 billion annually, an amount equal to the revenue received by the federal government as a result of corporate taxes.
And an econometric analysis of the bill by the Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis found the costs would exceed $1,200 per family, according to the think tank's Ben Lieberman in his recent testimony before Congress:
One more thing. Steve Everley at American Solutions for Winning the Future has a suggestion for something constructive that you can do with Chu's comments.
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