If the energy savings paid for themselves, don't you think that
businesses would do this on their own?  Why does Obama think
that he has to force companies to do something that he claims
will save them money? What a waste of money.  President Barack
Obama has tapped former President Bill Clinton and General
Electric (GE: 20.12, +0.26, +1.31%) chief executive Jeffrey
Immelt to lead the way in cutting buildings’ energy usage by a
fifth over the next decade.  Labels: ,   Blogger Chas said...
Markie Marxist sez: "Obama says that it will save them money,
but he just says that to sucker the rubes into doing it. The
point is to drive capitalism into inefficiency, and thereby help
to wreck it. It's just more common sense communism from the
Obama. He's a very sensible guy, from the Marxist perspective.
But this is just a small part of what we've been doing to
capitalism for decades. We prevent them from getting the raw
materials they need to make things by banning mining, drilling
and logging. We prevent them from ge