A Real Empty Chair - Just ask Charlie Brown

As conservatives were focusing all their attention on the performance of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, the leftists were hemorrhaging about the disrespect and overt racism by Clint Eastwood’s “Empty Chair” routine on Obama. Hmmn... some people just reach conclusions prejudicially even when it's not!

A New Stealth Obama Presidential Executive Order

Carbon Emissions Controls

While all eyes were on the empty chair, the real occupant actually was elsewhere doing more damage yet. Little attention was given to an executive order issued on Thursday, August 29, 2012 by President Obama that targeted industrial “efficiency” and carbon emissions. “Today, we are taking another step to strengthen American manufacturing by boosting energy efficiency for businesses across the nation,” said President Obama.

Obama repeated his re-election mantra, “This action will cut costs, increase efficiency, and help our businesses create strong, middle class jobs. We’ll continue to do everything we can to put more people back to work and build an economy that lasts”.

The Presidential executive order, which bypasses Congressional vote, aims to increase the number of cogeneration plants in the U.S. by 50 percent by 2020 and slash carbon emissions by 150 million tons per year, is the administration’s latest effort to “deploy cleaner and more efficient energy production in the country by working around political resistance to climate change and ‘green’ energy legislation on Capitol Hill”.

Factoid:  CHP (Combined Heat & Power) is most efficient when heat can be used on-site or very close to the cogeneration plants. Overall efficiency is reduced when the heat must be transported over longer distances. This requires heavily insulated pipes, which are expensive and inefficient; whereas electricity can be transmitted along a comparatively simple wire, and over much longer distances for the same energy loss. (More wrong-headed, costly Green Energy Programs)

Obama's Executive Order: 

The Federal Government has limited but important authorities to overcome … barriers, and our efforts to support investment in industrial energy efficiency and CHP [Combined heat and power] should involve coordinated engagement with a broad set of stakeholders.

Translation: 

If duly elected representatives of the people get in the way of “climate change”, also known as “global warming“ or as ”global cooling”, this legislation will work around them anyway.