Cut Emissions? Congress Itself Keeps Burning a Dirtier Fuel
10th August 2013
As part of the climate change agenda he unveiled this year, President Obama made a commitment to significantly reduce the federal government’s dependence on fossil fuels. The government, he said in a speech in June at Georgetown University, “must lead by example.”
But just two miles from the White House stands the Capitol Power Plant, the largest single source of carbon emissions in the nation’s capital and a concrete example of the government’s inability to green its own turf.
Obama lied? Obama says one thing and does another? Obama can’t carry through on his promises? None of that is news.
But it’s all the Republicans’ fault, of course….
August 10th, 2013 at 14:52
I was unaware that the POTUS, among his other duties, was also managing the D.C. power grid. What a multi-tasker! Who knew?
August 10th, 2013 at 15:38
If he isn’t, he ought not to talk as if he is. Either way, he’s an idle boaster who spends too much time breathing his own exhaust.