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The Dubya Administration use the Energy Department’s solar and renewable energy and energy conservation budgets to pay for printing <\/a>up 10,000 paper copies (to the tune of $130k or so) of the energy plan that suggested slashing said budgets by 50%.<\/p>\n

(Via Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dubya Administration use the Energy Department’s solar and renewable energy and energy conservation budgets to pay for printing up 10,000 paper copies (to the tune of $130k or so)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41782,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/22\/i-guess-solar-power-must-be-doing-pretty-well.html","url_meta":{"origin":1973,"position":0},"title":"I guess solar power must be doing pretty well","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Apr-14 11:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because the Koch Bros., ALEC, and various allies are starting to attack it, both by working to strike down state laws requiring utilities produce a percentage of their energy through alternative means, and by working to get states to up\u00a0fees for private citizens\u00a0who sell\u00a0excess solar back to utilities.(I do agree\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":19104,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/03\/unblogged-bits-wed-3-nov-10-2330.html","url_meta":{"origin":1973,"position":1},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 3-Nov-10 2330)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 3-Nov-10 11:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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