For energy efficiency, Americans deserve a big thumbs-up

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http://grist.org/news/for-energy-efficiency-americans-deserve-a-big-thumbs-up/


America’s population and economy are both growing, yet its energy appetite is falling. That’s because of substantial energy-efficiency gains made in recent decades.

Those gains are helping the country reduce oil imports, save money on power bills, and move toward meeting a goal set by President Obama of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent between 2005 and 2020.

The news is laid out in a Natural Resources Defense Council report cheerily titled America’s (Amazingly) Good Energy News [PDF]:

[O]ver the past 40 years Americans have found so many innovative ways to save energy that we have more than doubled the economic productivity of the oil that runs our vehicles and the natural gas and electricity that runs almost everything else. Factories and businesses are producing substantially more products and value with less energy. …

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1. Thank you for the good news

There's so much bad news around with what the repukes are doing to the government.

Of course, if they took over the government, any efforts toward energy efficiency would be eliminated. I remember when Reagan had Carter's solar panels removed from the White House.