{"id":370,"date":"2002-03-29T11:19:19","date_gmt":"2002-03-29T19:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/03\/29\/370.html"},"modified":"2002-03-29T11:19:19","modified_gmt":"2002-03-29T19:19:19","slug":"energy-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/03\/29\/energy-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Heh.  According to this <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&u=\/nm\/20020329\/pl_nm\/energy_bush_dc_1&cid=584\">Reuters article<\/a>, the Bush administration spent over $130,000 of the DOE's solar\/renewable\/conservation budget to print 10,000 copies of the Bush energy plan, which recommends drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time that this was going on, \"[the] administration was urging Congress to cut the renewable and energy efficiency research budgets by more than 50 percent.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"After all,\" said one administration official, \"we only need a couple hundred thousand in that budget to cover our annual printing costs.\"<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so I made up that last paragraph.  But the rest is from the Reuters article.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, somehow I doubt that this news will prove to be terribly embarrassing to the administration.<\/p>\n<p>(I always thought Reuters was supposed to provide pretty bare-bones reporting, but this article shows a definite anti-Bush bias; there's a sly little joke at the end, where it notes that funds from the fossil-energy program were also used&#8212;$100 for a hotel room.  It ends by noting that the released documents don't specify \"[whether] the hotel offered a government rate.\")<\/p>\n<p>(Oh, and the article doesn't say how big the renewable budget actually is, or what percentage of it $130K amounts to.  I doubt it's a huge percentage of the budget.  But it still seems like a nicely symbolic move on the administration's part, to quell any last doubts that anyone might have about how Bush et al feel about non-oil energy sources.  I wonder if they printed the report on recycled paper.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heh. According to this Reuters article, the Bush administration spent over $130,000 of the DOE&#8217;s solar\/renewable\/conservation budget to print 10,000&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}