No money for jobs, but plenty for big oil: Walker budget encourages state to burn more fossil fuels

[Bjorn Against]

Biz Beat: Energy programs get Walker ax
MIKE IVEY

If you like burning fossil fuels - hey, aren't those Koch brothers in the pipeline business? - then you'll love Gov. Walker's proposed budget.

The 1,345-pager takes a whack at scores of environmental efforts, from nixing the state Office of Energy Independence to actually encouraging state vehicles to use more gasoline.

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The state has also been operating under a directive that by 2015 it reduce gasoline use by at least 50 percent from 2006 levels. Walker wants to eliminate the requirement and drop the reduction goal to 20 percent.

Along those lines, Walker wants to do away with any requirements regarding use of hybrid-electric vehicles or alternative fuels in state-owned vehicles.

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[jwirr]

1. He can encourage it all he wants but this is one area where local

government and people can stand against him. No one has to take his suggestions.

[robinlynne]

2. unfortunately that isnt how it works. teh elctric car in california was the result of state law.

As soon as the oil companies were able to break the law the electric ended, quickly, quietly, into little pieces.
without laws at the state and federal level mandating energy eficiency there will be none.