{"id":533,"date":"2009-08-02T23:01:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T04:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=533"},"modified":"2009-08-02T23:43:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T04:43:07","slug":"setting-the-bar-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/setting-the-bar-low\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting the Bar Low&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/30\/business\/energy-environment\/30energy.html?ref=science\">&#8230;on energy efficiency<\/a>. Pitiful. In fact, it is no better than we&#8217;ve done since the dawn of time. We&#8217;ve always been able to increase efficiency by 1% a year. So this report says absolutely nothing. <\/p>\n<p>We could easily cut energy use by 90% if we set up the right incentives. Start with a tax that starts low and ramps up over a few years. Then, just sit back &#038; watch the gluttons scramble to invest in energy efficiency. <\/p>\n<p>But no. Instead of going on a crash program to implement basic, fun energy saving measures like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/03\/business\/energy-environment\/03iht-green03.html?ref=energy-environment\">these<\/a>, we&#8217;ve got to do cap &#038; trade giveaways for wasteful, gray, old industries (with the help of the enviros). And we&#8217;ll continue to subsidize wasteful land use &#038; transportation patterns with &#8220;shovel ready&#8221; pork (with the help of enviros). And then pay people to buy more cars (with the help of the enviros).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting the bar low on energy efficiency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,4],"tags":[95,37,3,1322,1320,38,21,96,99,51],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-efficiency","category-politics","category-society","tag-auto-centric","tag-consumption","tag-energy","tag-energy-efficiency","tag-environment","tag-gluttony","tag-greenwash","tag-subsidy","tag-superhighway-stalinism","tag-urban-geography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}