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4/01/2017 10:08 am  #1


A Plan to Keep Us Dependent on Big Energy?

Looks like Trump wants to keep us dependent on Oil, Gas and coal forever.
I wonder who stands to benefit from that?
It's time to stop wondering if Trump believes in Climate change or pollution.
The only thing Donald Trump believes in is his own profit.
Maybe we should just follow the money.



Trump aims deep cuts at energy agency that helped make solar power affordable

The Trump administration is aiming a half-billion-dollar cut at the main U.S. hub for renewable energy research — 25 percent of the agency’s budget, and that’s just for the final five months of this federal fiscal year.

Even deeper cuts are expected to be sought for 2018 — a possibility that has alarmed researchers in clean energy and even some Republicans in Congress.

The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, or EERE, is a $2 billion branch of the Department of Energy. It is credited with helping to drive the rapid expansion of rooftop solar panels, electric vehicle batteries, LED lighting and more.

The proposed $516 million cut for the remainder of fiscal year 2017 was reported earlier this week by E&E News.

The cuts have yet to be approved by Congress, but they remain a clear signal of administration priorities.

The Trump “skinny” budget proposal for the 2018 fiscal year released earlier this month suggested that intended cuts to EERE could run in the order of $1 billion, according to estimates by some office staffers and knowledgeable observers.

Several staffers said cuts of that magnitude would damage U.S. research and technological competitiveness. They suggested much of the brunt of the cuts could fall on the National Renewable Energy Laboratory at Golden, Colo., the country’s leading clean energy research facility.

“These are individuals we have in labs throughout the country, and when our funding gets cut, those are postdocs and graduate students and researchers that are gone,” said one EERE employee, who, like another in this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not cleared to speak on the record and feared possible retribution for doing so. “They’re doing the research. And they won’t have jobs. And we won’t be competitive.”

Virtually all of the lab’s federal funding comes from the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy — $273 million out of its total federal budget of $292 million in 2016.

“I think overall I would argue that the whole scientific community is a little bit concerned what the direction and what the focus is of this budget and how much it impacts science as a whole,” said Martin Keller, the NREL director.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/31/its-our-central-hub-for-clean-energy-science-trump-wants-to-cut-it-massively/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_epacuts-810pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.e0d2d2bb4d9f

Last edited by Goose (4/01/2017 10:10 am)


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

4/01/2017 11:16 am  #2


Re: A Plan to Keep Us Dependent on Big Energy?

When all explanations fail, ALWAYS follow the money.

 

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