The Government To Do As The Government Says?
By: Doug Busselman, Executive Vice President
It will be interesting to see how the federal government walks the walk in regard to this newest Executive Order to come from President Obama. We would agree with the assessment he made in his statement that the federal government is the largest consumer of energy in our economy – they are the biggest everything and continuing to get bigger. How they will reduce their carbon footprint will be interesting to watch.
We’ll have to see whether the measurement for their reductions will come along the same lines as the jobs they say that they are saving – in other words make up a number and say that’s what their results are…or, come up with something concrete that can actually be backed up with solid data. While they are doing the activities associated with figuring out how they will do their carbon footprint cut-back, we hope that all agencies just doing less, with fewer people and less restrictive regulations (it would be great if we could determine that government regulations cause green house gases) could be an option. The statement didn’t go into lots of detail on whether the President’s travel, which seems extremely excessive, might also be reduced in the effort to have government cut back.
It will be interesting to see how the federal government walks the walk in regard to this newest Executive Order to come from President Obama. We would agree with the assessment he made in his statement that the federal government is the largest consumer of energy in our economy – they are the biggest everything and continuing to get bigger. How they will reduce their carbon footprint will be interesting to watch.
We’ll have to see whether the measurement for their reductions will come along the same lines as the jobs they say that they are saving – in other words make up a number and say that’s what their results are…or, come up with something concrete that can actually be backed up with solid data. While they are doing the activities associated with figuring out how they will do their carbon footprint cut-back, we hope that all agencies just doing less, with fewer people and less restrictive regulations (it would be great if we could determine that government regulations cause green house gases) could be an option. The statement didn’t go into lots of detail on whether the President’s travel, which seems extremely excessive, might also be reduced in the effort to have government cut back.
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