DID YOU HEAR THAT? WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN?
RHETORIC:
President Bush commented in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that America need to address its addiction to oil consumption and then proposed that the government spend 22 percent more on renewable energy.
REALITY:
While President Bush and the Congress supports the development of other forms of renewable energy like, ethanol and wind power. The federal goals may compete for research dollars and are costing some government researchers their jobs.
The federal funding for the Energy Department is limited and when Congress earmarks pet projects, it reduces spending on similar projects at the Energy Departments’ laboratories.
A recent New York Times article[1] noted that The Energy Department will begin laying off researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the next week or two because of cuts to its budget. The budget for the laboratory, near Denver, Colorado, was cut by nearly 15 percent.
The bottom line is that, federal employees at the department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in Golden, Colo., and at contractors that the lab supports are losing their jobs.
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[1] "In Energy work, One Hand Giveth and the Other Taketh" by Matthew L. Wald, New York Times, 2-3-06.
President Bush commented in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that America need to address its addiction to oil consumption and then proposed that the government spend 22 percent more on renewable energy.
REALITY:
While President Bush and the Congress supports the development of other forms of renewable energy like, ethanol and wind power. The federal goals may compete for research dollars and are costing some government researchers their jobs.
The federal funding for the Energy Department is limited and when Congress earmarks pet projects, it reduces spending on similar projects at the Energy Departments’ laboratories.
A recent New York Times article[1] noted that The Energy Department will begin laying off researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the next week or two because of cuts to its budget. The budget for the laboratory, near Denver, Colorado, was cut by nearly 15 percent.
The bottom line is that, federal employees at the department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in Golden, Colo., and at contractors that the lab supports are losing their jobs.
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[1] "In Energy work, One Hand Giveth and the Other Taketh" by Matthew L. Wald, New York Times, 2-3-06.
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