Sloughing Toward a “Huddled Masses” Housing Policy

Saving Energy with Higher Densities?

If President Obama and his subordinates are to be believed, this
Administration is promising to impose unprecedented
(“transformational”) changes on the way Americans live, work, and
travel in order to achieve a variety of environmental goals. But as
the evidence to date indicates, many of these decisions will be
based on flawed data that have been carelessly collected and
calculated by the Department of Energy.

 

from: The Heritage Foundation, June 2, 2009
Research Report: Backgrounder #2281 on Smart Growth
By Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D.

1). The Obama Administration’s unfolding energy policy is likely to rely on coercion to achieve dramatic changes in American lifestyles.

2). Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood admits that the Administration’s new transportation policy “is a way to coerce people out of their cars.”

3). Secretary of Energy Steven Chu claims that small European-style apartments will yield considerable energy savings.

4). The U.S. Department of Energy’s study that demonstrates energy savings for small apartments is based on serious flaws in the data collection process.

5). If President Obama and his subordinates are to be believed, this Administration is promising to impose unprecedented (“transformational”) changes on the way Americans live, work, and travel in order to achieve a variety of environmental goals.

6). That Department of Energy study should be withdrawn, and the data should be recollected, recalculated, and re-evaluated.

 

Read the full report here.

Filed under: Sustainable Development

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