Over-promising Energy Efficiency
Breakthrough President Michael Shellenberger comments in an MSNBC report on why energy efficiency efforts in the economic stimulus package have not delivered jobs as promised.
As the Obama administration promotes a second home energy-savings program -- a $6 billion rebate plan -- some experts are asking whether that will pay off for homeowners or for the planet."A very rosy picture was painted that energy efficiency would be a great way to create jobs and save money," said Michael Shellenberger, an energy expert who heads the Breakthrough Institute, an Oakland-based think tank that is financed by nonpartisan foundations and works on energy, climate change and health care issues. "The Obama administration risks overpromising again."