Biden Bans the Use of Fossil Fuels in New Federal Buildings
Biden Bans the Use of Fossil Fuels in New Federal Buildings
(Bloomberg) -- Fossil fuel use will be banned in new federal buildings starting in 2030 under a Biden administration rule that the natural gas industry fought for more than a decade. Most Read from BloombergBiden’s Gains Against Trump Vanish on Deep Economic Pessimism, Poll ShowsTaylor Swift Is Proo...
The mandate, authorized by a 2007 energy law signed by President George W. Bush
That is how far the Overton Window has moved.
Thanks for introducing a new term to me today.
You mean voting works??? ShockedPikachu.jpg [while looking at retarded ideas to ban the EPA]
*I have no idea why this is being downvoted. The Overton Window moved because Trump won an election. Want to move the Overton Window? Then VOTE.
My reading is that they mean to say the conservative party has continued to move so far to the right that conservative positions from only 15 years ago are now "radical lib" positions.
Though I hesitate to frame this as the Overton Window. In society at large, the Overton Window continues to move to the left, being gay is normalized now, cannabis is normalized now, I would frame the conservative movement as a desperate grasping to prevent the Overton Window from continuing on its current path, normalizing a genderless society for example.
Economically, both American parties are right wing corporate welfare state proponents.
The united states is a corporate plutocracy, you can buy power and influence, and being poor is being increasingly criminalized. While the system squeezes wealth from the middle class like a sponge. It is engineered to transfer your life savings into the hands of the healthcare owners at the end of your life, instead of to your children.
The poverty class grows.
Overton is rolling in his grave (rolling to the far right side of the coffin, but most are calling it the center of the coffin)
Waiting for the "but but but Biden bad and doesn't do anything" comments.
Looks like it bans natural gas. Doesn't mention diesel in the article. I was wondering what they'd do for backup power.
I don’t know about the particulars of this one, but these electrification mandates usually have exemptions for critical facilities and backup systems. It seems to be more about never using nat gas powered appliances like say a water heater. This also keeps in line with the new DC energy codes that are becoming mandatory in two years, and those have exemptions for diesel generators and such.
I figured as much. Gotta have backup power.
The first sentence references fossil fuels. I'm pretty sure that means diesel.
Battery backups
For 23 minutes, yes.
Hey cool, we’re catching up to what the rest of the world was doing two decades ago!
Nor does it ban shitty construction materials made out of petroleum.
damn, it's almost like the "bridge fuel" talk about methane gas was full of shit
Im really confused about all this. It says it's a mandate from 2007. But Biden did it? But he's also not doing it until he's not president anymore...
Looks like Biden is poisoning the well - enabling a whole lot of "progressive" legislation in rapid succession that an incoming Republican regime will obviously undo first thing.
It tells me that Biden isn't banking on winning the election.
He already won, he's running against the worlds biggest and greatest LOSER. NOBODY loses more than tRump! Go suck an egg Komrade
Lol! If you say so.
aren't VA hospitals federal buildings?
are they just going to not have backup power past batteries in the case of an emergency?