{"id":355214,"date":"2024-12-18T16:39:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=355214"},"modified":"2024-12-18T16:40:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T15:40:23","slug":"doge-climate-and-energy-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=355214","title":{"rendered":"DOGE climate and energy targets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens when Elon and Vivek meet our federal bureaucracy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buckle up! We\u2019re about to find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Add Elon and Vivek, btw, to those rare people such as Elvis, Einstein, Denzel, Cher, Mookie, Ringo, Lincoln, Reagan, and indeed their new partner Trump, for whom one name will suffice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDOGE,\u201d or the \u201cDepartment of Government Efficiency,\u201d is a key Trump initiative aimed at reforming our tragically bloated government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elon and Vivek will spearhead efforts to reduce, restructure, streamline, deregulate and root out duplication, waste, fraud, red tape and abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is way overdue, but whenever it\u2019s been tried before, the status quo easily triumphed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entrepreneurs maximize innovation and efficiency and profit thereby.  Bureaucrats maximize security, perquisites and control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Elon acquired X, the then-named Twitter had 7,500 employees.  Elon immediately fired 3,750 of them and another 1,250 packed up and quit.  Government is nothing like this simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal bureaucrats know that when it comes to conflict, their swords are weak, but their shields are mighty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bureaucrats fight from behind a mighty defensive structure of outdated laws, regulations, civil service rules and union contracts.  They rely upon their superior institutional knowledge of our byzantine web of government rules and processes to thwart outsiders.  Bureaucrats scoff at the naivet\u00e9 of any citizen who believes common sense can compel change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team DOGE must quickly obtain an expert knowledge of the rules that constrain and enable how government actually functions that meets or exceeds that of the entrenched bureaucracy and the vast network that profits from government dysfunction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More importantly, team DOGE must resolve not to throw up their hands in frustration, no matter the obstacle.  The presidency comes with great powers, but demands expertise.  The eunuchs who hold the keys to the Forbidden City will take great delight in their game of obfuscation and delay.  They will crow over every naive misstep and blocked initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CFACT has long expertise and a deep bench on issues of climate, energy, the environment and individual freedom.  The opportunities in these essential areas are ripe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out the early list of opportunities for reform CFACT senior policy advisor Paul Driessen posted to CFACT.org<\/a>.  CFACT senior policy analyst Bonner Cohen lays out<\/a> the reasons for exiting the UN\u2019s Paris Climate Agreement and how a return to best constitutional practices can help.  CFACT\u2019s good friend Doug Pollack posted to CFACT.org<\/a> his hope that the new Administration will rescue American industry from those he aptly describes as Green monsters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Left knows how to forum shop for activists’ judges to block reform.\u00a0 The media that ran cover for the failures of the Biden\/Harris Administration stands ready to pull false alarms and frighten people, particularly our seniors and people who care about our environment (as all of us should).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We recommend the CFACT method of patiently, but relentlessly debunking false narratives with verifiable facts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CFACT will continually lay out a roadmap, as we have always done, of opportunities for free market efficiency and reform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DOGE will be listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?<\/p>\n

What happens when Elon and Vivek meet our federal bureaucracy?<\/p>\n

Buckle up! We\u2019re about to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":355215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691832048,691832049,691832047],"class_list":{"0":"post-355214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-department-of-government-efficiency","9":"tag-elon-and-vivek","10":"tag-uns-paris-climate-agreement","12":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1GcOyC21W4AAtT7P.jpeg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1upg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":275488,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=275488","url_meta":{"origin":355214,"position":0},"title":"GOP Pres. candidate Vivek Ramaswamy: \u2018The Climate change agenda is a HOAX\u2019","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"08\/25\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Business entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy said on the debate stage of the first GOP primary debate Wednesday night that the climate change agenda is a hoax.\u00a0","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0id5217654-04222023-DSC07814-Vivek-Ramaswamy-1200x800-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0id5217654-04222023-DSC07814-Vivek-Ramaswamy-1200x800-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0id5217654-04222023-DSC07814-Vivek-Ramaswamy-1200x800-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0id5217654-04222023-DSC07814-Vivek-Ramaswamy-1200x800-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/0id5217654-04222023-DSC07814-Vivek-Ramaswamy-1200x800-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":247903,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=247903","url_meta":{"origin":355214,"position":1},"title":"Claim: A Majority of Voters believe Climate Change is a False Religion","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"03\/16\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201c\u2026\u00a0the climate religion actually has nothing to do with the climate. 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