Government-mandated energy efficiency programs today are designed to decrease energy use. They generally do this by increasing the cost of energy which results in a decrease in energy use, and subsequently in economic growth.
D.C. Doesn’t Just Spend Too Much Money, It Spends On The Wrong Things
Can you imagine China, Russia, or Iran spending trillions of dollars to remove any fraction of the carbon dioxide they’re pumping into the air? When corporations — and people — misallocate capital, they tend to suffer. Of course, whether capital is misallocated is sometimes only fully understood after the fullness of time. The People’s Republic...