822 Energy Pages
The lamestream media told you:
The new energy bill passed by Congress and signed by President Bush will eliminate inefficient incandescent light bulbs, create corn-made bio-fuel mixtures for 35 MPG cars, show greenhouse-gas emissions labels on vehicles, make expensive-to-buy but cheap-to-operate energy-efficient appliances, and add geothermal and other alternative energy sources in the next decade or two. The world will be a more efficient, greener and better place with the wonderful new government guidance.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
With a single headline and less than half a page of news, the national media “reported” on the new congressional energy bill. The bill contains 822 pages of new federal law, and was totally supported by the high spending and so-called low spending parties.
The effect of everything but the few items summarized above was omitted. Tax-funded spending increases are sprinkled liberally throughout the entire package but only purchasable product and service changes were mentioned. Lawyers and federal compliance professionals were ecstatic over the new job-security measures, added costs and cash handouts the bill mandates.
Since the 822 pages of nearly indecipherable legalese are available on line, there was no need to report on them, according to standard media policy. The 3-digit number of the bill, HR 6, which would make finding it easy, is a mere technicality and was not included. The 600 lines in the bill’s table of contents includes more than 200 new grants, loans, programs, agencies, fees, departments, studies, preferences and other expansions of government in the name of efficiency, also not reported. The cost for the thousands of new federal requirements is unknown.
Democrats’ unsubstantiated bragging about eliminating “the famously inefficient incandescent light bulb,” was unquestioningly carried by every “news” outlet. This somehow overlooked the stunning work done by a dead white guy to invent the bulb, which until now was considered a miracle.
The electric lightbulb brought the entire human race out of abject darkness and the dangerous truly inefficient “filthy burnt-stuff lighting” humans had suffered with since the dawn of civilization. Prior to the easily swallowed Democrat revision of history, the Edison light bulb had received unmitigated praise in classrooms and societies globally.
Enforcement of the thousands of new requirements, if necessary, will be handled in the usual manner — by heavily armed federal agents.
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