Thursday, June 14, 2012

Bailed-out General Motors to Receive Another Wasteful Handout

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The Department of Energy is awarding $54 million for energy projects that should help manufacturing companies be more energy efficient. If your immediate response is, “If these technologies are going to lower a business’s costs, why aren’t they investing their own money?” then you’re asking the right question.

Comment:

I would add that this dovetails nicely in the limits to growth mindset of the left.  The theory goes that resources are limited, so conservation is necessary.  But if sufficient energy is actually available, why the necessity for conservation of energy?  There isn't unless there is an impetus to limit growth as a matter of policy.  The left doesn't want growth, that's the point.  These awards are intended to buy people off for their political support.  It is a corrupt practice and it doesn't achieve any policy goals worth pursuing.

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