Sunday we all got a chuckle (or a scare depending on your world view) from the Superbowl Green Police commercial. Some thought it was fine satire, others thought it hit a little too close to reality.
After watching this report about Cathy Zoi in the Obama administration, perhaps the “too close to reality” worry has merit. In this report from John Stossel, she visualizes and vocalizes the need for “swat teams” in neighborhoods to enforce energy efficiency retrofits for homes and businesses.
Zoi, formerly of the “Alliance for Climate Protection”, formerly Al Gore’s point person for his “Repower America” nationwide campaign, now heads up Obama’s DOE energy efficiency/renewables division.
Cathy Zoi, center, Al Gore, at right. Photo via Flickr
Treehugger has a report on her move from GORE to DOE.
So why is John Stossel reporting about her? It seems some cronyism might be afoot related to company that’s been getting some government handouts as part of the “stimulus”. Watch John Stossel’s eye opening report below.
I should add that I’m all for energy efficiency, which I demonstrate with deeds, but I’m against “swat teams” forcing retrofits on homeowners. People are smart enough to make a change if it will save energy and thus money.
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It is scary to see the potential for an unholy alliance of politicians, news media, and publishers to use science as a propaganda tool to control mankind.
That’s my opinion,
Oliver K. Manuel
Emeritus Professor of
Nuclear & Space Science
Former NASA PI for Apollo
Come on! I like this site for its attention to reality, and use of real facts. Stossel moved to Fox because ABC stopped him from doing outright hack jobs such as this, and he IS NOT a reporter at Fox, but a comentator (based on his and Fox’ own statements), thus to put this up like it is true and meaningful is below this site.
Please remove this tripe and stick to science, this removes credibility from what this site is supposed to be good at, science based claims for science issues with political overtones.
What crap…
REPLY: Sorry you feel that way, but I was more interested in the “swat team” comparison to the Green Police commercial. – A
Window dressing of the worst kind!
Henry,
The only factual question remaining is: are they making the most efficient windows or not?
This treehugger report has a nice link to “How Much Longer Will There be Snow to Ski On?” … couple more weeks in Washington D.C.?
LOL
http://planetgreen.discovery.com/travel-outdoors/longer-snow-ski.html?campaign=daylife-article
I’m shocked! Not really. Just one more example of the particular shade of green involved in the green economy. I wonder which caulk company gave the most to the Obama campaign?
The “Swat Team” statement alone sends a shiver down my spine.
Interesting that a report on how one window maker got singled out for praise, and how that window maker just happens to have political connections, could be called a “hack job.”
This is more of the same “Green Science” that we saw elsewhere. The statements the politicians make are untrue, the handouts are politically motivated, and the cost to the tax payers for these green jobs will never be repaid by any kind of ficticious “energy savings.”
Unfortunately the Greens have made this political, and uncoupling politics from science will require exposure of all of the lies, not just UN report lies.
Henry, “like it is true and meaningful”, you mean that they can say those things if it is not true?
GET REAL.
It goes on all the time and is germane to what AGW is all about.
Oh, I can hardly wait till some ECO SWAT team comes up my 1/4 mile driveway, past the NO TRESSPASSING sign, and tells me I’ve got to add more insulation. There’s a cure for trespassers.
I loved the “Green Police” ad and found it hilarious (it was my favorite SB ad), but to feed into the overzealous paranoia out there right now is counterproductive, at least I think so. Lets stick to facts.
And you morons shot Kennedy.
Antonio Sam – {Groan – Bad pun!}
And good question. The answer is no, they are no better or worse than the other 2 brands. They just have better connections.
Stossel’s OK. Anyone who challanges the main stream propaganda machine, or puts his butt on the line for the benefit of the everyday people of this country has earned a “listen”, a “watch” and/or a “read” in my book. Stossel’s NOT the issue here.
Greens : 1% of the electoral vote. 100% of the media’s attention.
Al Gore essentially gave the Obama Administration his “wish list” of “stimulus” funding for corporate entities that he has an economic vested interest in. This is why funding to “beef up” the electricity grid consisted of “smart monitors” to regulate household use of electricity. I thought the plan was to improve power line capacity to encourage wind, solar etc.
It is crony capitalism at its worse. Smart monitors are also another example of “the green police” invading the lifestyle choices of individuals. Soon we will be told when power can or cannot be used, followed by fines and penalties for “excessive use”. Policies that favor the single urban elitist type over middle Americans with large families.
That shot of Al Gore standing menacingly with slicked back hair reminds me of the “Minder” in a 1970’s British sitcom of the same name.
Rachel Maddow on stimulus: “Government gives money to company so they can ramp up production. That’s how it works…. Economic stimulus….Ta Da”.
Of course here is the next part she didn’t say or maybe doesn’t understand – that Serious Windows ramps up production to sell windows. Yet, because of the building recession, there are few buyers so the unsold inventory builds up causing the price of windows to plummet, while the government favoritism of the one company has forced the other two to sell even less product forcing them to lay off workers, and then when Serious Windows realizes that they can’t make anymore windows, they lay off employees as well…. failed government interference in the free market economy… Ta Da!
PS. I’m not against government’s role in buffering the downturn. I am against them doing it stupidly and ineffectively.
You mean investigative reporting that makes the shady Obambi administration look bad? Let’s see: A VP of this window company is married to an administration ‘energy’ official. Then the Vice President and President select this window company out of all the others to endorse. Coincidence? Not likely!
Now just wait until the EPA starts enforcing its CO2 restrictions. Then you’ll find out who the friends of this administration really are, and who are its enemies. And then you’ll really see some SWAT teams.
/Mr Lynn
What a travesty!
Cathy Zoi will serve as Assistant Secretary in the Department of Energy (DOE)!
The same DOE that misled the public by falsely reporting that solar neutrinos from H-fusion oscillate away before we can detect them?
The same DOE that ignored nuclear rest mass data that show neutron repulsion is a greater source of nuclear energy than fusion or fission?
To further illustrate the commitment of the present administration to the security of this country, I nominate TV personality Joan Rivers to replace Dr. Steven Chu as DOE Secretary.
With kind regards,
Oliver K. Manuel
Emeritus Professor of
Nuclear & Space Studies
Former NASA PI for Apollo
We’re all going to need these windows, to fight global cooling!
“Rachel Maddow on stimulus: “Government gives money to company so they can ramp up production. That’s how it works…. Economic stimulus….Ta Da”.”
Ya . . . she must have missed the part about the layoffs at the other window makers who didn’t have the political clout to make the US Government divert all that taxpayer’s money into the revenue stream of the “special’ company.
One company gets a lip-lock on the public teat, two real companies suffer. NO market place distortion there.
I look forward to these energy ‘swat teams.’ It will literally embolden this country and the government will fall apart.
It’s all politics. Not science. Notice the union goon in the t shirt. I’m sure a non-union company would not be in Biden’s limelight.
As I said once in an earlier post, this is now The Age of Dark Science.
When government policy, business interests, and social engineers combine together to undermine science, facts and reality, we have Dark Science, Dark Knowledge and a Dark Society.
It took many centuries for society to separate the church from state, and it took many lives to do it. We now have a far more potentially destructive problem, separating the maniacal megalomaniac elitists, stone-age regressive seekers of society and self-serving presumptuous manipulative intellectual hypocrites from the legislative and executive branches of government. I shudder what cost we as society have to pay to rid ourselves of this group of vampires, vultures and leeches.
The Age of Dark Science is here. The only weapon we have is the same weapon that all liars, cheats, crooks and bullies fear, the light of truth, use it well people!
As for those windows: note how this government is investing tax payers dollars in an industry, that is the building industry, where there is no building going on, cause of the housing bubble implosion. What kind off idiotic thinking goes into putting money in an industry that has crashed. Obama how about fixing the economy, getting people to work, so they can then afford to buy a home, and then by default, not just one window company, BUT EVERY window company will be able to grow and employ people.
Me thinks that this Democratic Party is more interested in lining their pockets and using The Office of State as a device in this regard, than to really helping The People of the US of A. We had the bankers making hay thanks to Obama, now it is a Window company.
Que: Any body have the Democratic Party members’ list of spouses and their corporate associations? One could make a lot of money picking the place where tax payers’ dollars are going to be deposited!