By Executive ORDER: Pres Obama announces that the Feds will reduce its greenhouse gas

[FrenchieCat]

Obama Sets Federal Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets
1/29/10

President Barack Obama today announced that the Federal Government will reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution by 28 percent by 2020. Reducing and reporting GHG pollution, as called for in Executive Order 13514 on Federal Sustainability, will ensure that the Federal Government leads by example in building the clean energy economy. Actions taken under this Executive Order will spur clean energy investments that create new private-sector jobs, drive long-term savings, build local market capacity, and foster innovation and entrepreneurship in clean energy industries.

As the single largest energy consumer in the U.S. economy, the Federal Government spent more than $24.5 billion on electricity and fuel in 2008 alone. Achieving the Federal GHG pollution reduction target will reduce Federal energy use by the equivalent of 646 trillion BTUs, equal to 205 million barrels of oil, and taking 17 million cars off the road for one year. This is also equivalent to a cumulative total of $8 to $11 billion in avoided energy costs through 2020.

“As the largest energy consumer in the United States, we have a responsibility to American citizens to reduce our energy use and become more efficient,” said President Obama. “Our goal is to lower costs, reduce pollution, and shift Federal energy expenses away from oil and towards local, clean energy.”

[boppers]

1. Turbines and solar cells on every federal building rooftop!

About freaking time.

Once they've got the buildings, (or at the same time), go after the vehicles.

[jtrockville]

2. Dear Mr. President: coal is FILTHY - Love, JT

I hope he doesn't have filthy coal in his target portfolio.

[scheming daemons]

3. Change we can believe in! (Not just a slogan!)

[juajen]

4. That's a really good start! Good for him. NT

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. Start with curtailing the rampant war machines. n/t

[avaistheone1]

9. You got it.

Shutting down these wars would make a significant difference. The US military is the world biggest polluter, and one of the largest consumers of fossil fuels in the world.

[Igel]

11. That may be built into the numbers, for all we know.

He's done once before: project temporary expenditures into the future and then claim savings when the quondam temporary expenditures again become temporary.

[kestrel91316]

6. I can hear the RW screams now: "AHHHH, we're MELTINGGGGG!!!!!

[jillan]

7. There is no stopping him now!

Look out!

[glinda]

8. He is burning now. I am afraid he needs more bodyguards asap.

[LiberalFighter]

10. Best way to accomplish that is to

plug up the assholes of all the Republican members of Congress and the oil and coal industry.