Once again, irresponsible Americans are killing the planet. According to the Wall Street Journal:
The latest inspector general’s report found that the DOE often neglects to turn down the thermostat, wasting millions of dollars in energy every year.
The latest report found that “the Energy Department failed in many cases to use controls on heating, ventilation and air conditioning that are a primary means of conserving energy during non-working hours,” as Dow Jones Newswires put it. That could have cost the DOE more than $11 million.
In May, government inspectors found the Energy Department tended to leave computer monitors on, wasting electricity worth more than $1 million a year. The White House has trouble with energy efficiency as well.
I’ll remember that the next time somebody scolds me for leaving my cellphone charger plugged in.
What’s next? Blasting “F*** the Police” at the Dept. of Justice? Burning books at the Dept. of Education? Putting Hillary Clinton in charge of the State Department? Hey, waitasec…
P.S. I can’t believe I forgot: Putting a tax cheat in charge of the IRS! Kind of scary how quickly all this stuff becomes commonplace, huh?
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This hypocracy leaves me speechless.
Hey, maybe they’re ALL from Hawaii. Or Chicago. Depends.
D-OH!! (Hee)
What about something TRULY insane, like appointing as your science czar someone who is on record as having pushed for forced abortions, involuntary sterilizations and euthanasia? Does the name John Holdren ring a bell?
Nothing suprises me, with regards to the govenment, anymore. No that is not true. If they all started to practice what they preached, I would be gob smacked.
>>insert “We All Gonna Die Due To Global Warming” comment here<<<
Toubrouk, how about >>insert “They’re all gonna choke us with their hypocrisy” comment here<< Hmmm, wonder how many carbon credits they’re gonna have to trade for if their idiotic cap-n-trade bill passes the Senate??
I’m shocked, I tell ya.
Gee whiz, what’s next, a Treasury Secretary that didn’t pay their taxes?
Or how about 12 millionaire cabinet members that didn’t pay their taxes, and one (Steve Rattner) that took a million dollar bribe?
McCain (idiot loser as he is/was) was dealt a much deserved blow – campain finance. I hope these idiots at the DoE get what’s coming to the rest of us – cold / dark winters and hot summers – now that they’ve banned modernity.
Bubbasmom, if they could trade “carbon credits” (regardless of what that really is) with Idiocy, the U.S. governmental bureaucracy could offset China’s and India’s “Carbon Footprint” without any effort.
Hee…..think I’ll add a few more goats to our herd. Need more methane in the atmosphere!
And this is the entity that says they can give everyone high quality healthcare at a deficit neutral expense?
All those to whom this came as a (gasp) surprise, raise your hands.
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Yeah, I thought so.
I’ll take this to another level. How about all the obese people we have in government. Here in Pennsylvania we have commercials on the radio paid for by yep taxpayers telling us about the percentage of obese children and things to do so that your kids aren’t a fat mess.
Let’s take a look at some of our government officials health. Do any of them set examples by smoking or being fat pigs? Janet, Barry, can you hear me now?
Let me get the keys to my new prius and my new healthy kids so that politcos can ride around in parades and jets, smoke, and look like animals.
Teehee. James Woods reminds us of all those unfortunate Al Gore photos.
I just bought a new car, and it is NOT A HYBRID. And I am gonna drive it IN A FUEL-INEFFICIENT MANNER and then refill it some more WITH REGULAR GAS.
Then I’ll go outside and kick a tree.
And of course, as previously stated, I must run around nude if the cap-and-trade passes so that everyone can understand the true impact of making my electric bill triple what it is now.
So. We’ve got wanton nudity, rapidly accelerating cars, kicking trees, and tequila (though not all at the same time). Come on; I can’t be the only one who’s in favor of this!
Clearly, Congress was not thinking about the nudity when passing cap and trade. If 30-40 percent (or more) of Americans are obese, do we really want to kill off A/C and have everyone running around in hot pants and crop tops? The few people who can pull that off will not make up for the horror of everyone else’s fat rolls hanging over the waistbands. Crank the A/C and put on a sweater!
This reminds me of a (relatively recent) Washington Post story about the DC metro headquarters spending 1 million dollars a year (or close to) keeping lights on after work hours. Meanwhile, Metro whines about being underfunded and wants to raise train fares and parking fees 24/7. Let’s see…turn off the lights at headquarters and raise bus fares as much as other fares, close funding gap. Nah. That would make sense. And we can’t have that.