Intrigued by the sight of entire vacant federal buildings illuminated at night, Andrea McCarren, a reporter for WUSA-TV, has spent the last several months monitoring the amount of money spent on electric bills for various departmental HQ's in Washington, DC.
Hundreds of nights and many Freedom of Information Act requests later, McCarren has announced her astounding findings.
Electric bill per month:
Department of Labor = $1,000,000 (July 2010)
Department Health and Human Services = $799,000 (August 2010)
Department of Commerce = $794,000 (June 2010)
Department of Energy = $260,000 (average)
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These are the same Fedzilla folks who are telling us to "go green" and "conserve energy".
Someday I'd like to see most of those lights go out and then we can bring back Dandy Don Meredith to sing "Turn out the lights, the party's over".
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
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