White House Slashes Renewable Energy Budget

[chlamor]

The FY06 budget request for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) energy efficiency and renewable energy (EE/RE) programs envisions reductions totaling nearly $50 million - an overall cut of roughly 4 percent. This includes a 6 percent cut in Distributed Energy programs ($60,416 to $56,629); an 8 percent cut in the Geothermal Energy program ($25,270 to $23,299); an 18 percent cut in the Biomass/Biofuels program ($88,099 to $72,164); and a 90 percent cut in the Hydropower program ($4,862 to $500).
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On the energy efficiency side of the ledger, DOE's funding would be cut back by nearly $21 million. Moreover, this decrease comes on top of earlier reductions. Since FY02, DOE research and development spending on efficiency has fallen by $50 million. Corrected for inflation, this represents a 15 percent drop in federal support for energy efficiency even though studies suggest that every dollar invested in DOE-administered energy-efficiency R&D returns $20 to the nation's economy.
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Elsewhere the pattern is the same. At the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), funding for the Federal Procurement of Biobased Products program and the Biodiesel Fuel Education program held steady at $1 million each. However, the RBS Renewable and Energy Efficiency Grant/Loan Guarantee Program would be scaled back to $10 million from $23 million in FY05, the NRCS Biomass Research and Development Program would be cut by $2 million to $12 million, and the CCC Bioenergy Program would be slashed $40 million from $100 million in FY05 to $60 million in FY06 - and down from $150 million in FY04.

For the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the President's budget calls for an overall cut of $517 million (a 6.4 percent reduction from FY05 appropriations). The cut includes a $42 million cut in the Clean Air and Global Climate Change Program (a 4.2% cut from the FY 05 President's
budget).
http://renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=23074

[McCamy Taylor]

1. Renewable energy is not good for the Bush Saudi Masters

:nuke:

[shraby]

2. Well, looks like we can kiss breathable air goodbye n/t

[illflem]

3. Just because the boy who thinks he's king

asks for these cuts it doesn't mean he'll get them.
Only 5 out of the 92 budget cuts he proposed in his first term were passed.

[SpiralHawk]

4. Congress had the Democrat/Clinton surplus last time

This time they have the massive Bush hole in the public wallet.

[Johonny]

5. So when he told

Europeans on that last trip that Koyoto wasn't needed because the future belong to renewable energy, hydrogen economy and "clean" coal. He meant the far, far distant future... The one where we are living in our moonbases and taking vacations to Mars.

[petron]

6. ShrubCo probably just read this...

http://www.disclosureproject.org/ES-DisclosureImplications-2.htm

IMPLICATIONS
FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, WORLD PEACE, WORLD POVERTY
AND THE HUMAN FUTURE
 
A BRIEF SUMMARY


Copyright Steven M. Greer, M.D, March 2001


For most people, the question of whether or not we are alone in the universe is a mere philosophical musing — something of academic interest but of no practical importance. Even evidence that we are currently being visited by non-human advanced life forms seems to many to be an irrelevancy in a world of global warming, crushing poverty and the threat of war. In the face of real challenges to the long-term human future, the question of UFOs, extraterrestrials and secret government projects is a mere sideshow, right? Wrong — catastrophically wrong.

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"This means that such systems do not require fuel to burn or atoms to split or fuse. They do not require central power plants, transmission lines and the related multi-trillion dollar infrastructure required to electrify and power remote areas of India, China, Africa and Latin America. These systems are site-specific: they can be set up at any place and generate needed energy. Essentially, this constitutes the definitive solution to the vast majority of environmental problems facing our world."

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What I meant to say in my subject line was, ShrubCo probably knows about this already but maintaining control of the sheeple is a higher priority they feeding the hungry, cleaning the atmosphere and and having world peace.

[NV Whino]

7. Fucking, goddamn asshole(s)! n/t

[Jacobin]

8. I keep waiting for Bush* to do JUST ONE thing that is reasonable,

or responsible, or that makes sense, Just Fucking One thing.

In four years, NOT ONE thing has come out of this administration that is not either lame brained, dangerous, short-sighted, idiotic or just plain stupid.