Category Archives: Conservationism

Energy Efficiency Mandates: No Free Lunch

Amory Lovins 2008 Interview: Energy as Romance (a ‘Green New Deal’ antecedent)

Dear EERE: Past Time to Debate “Deep Decarbonization” (Obama program inconsistent with America First energy policy)

Update: ‘Is DOE Leading Us Astray?’ (A 1999 analysis revisited)

Malthusianism circa 1948 (running out of oil, etc.)

Federal Energy Efficiency Mandates: DOE’s End Run vs. the Public Interest (Part II)

Federal Energy Efficiency Mandates: DOE’s End Run vs. the Public Interest (Part I)

“Market Conservation vs. Government Conservationism: Understanding the Limits to Energy Efficiency and ‘New-Economy’ ESCOs” (2009 post questions intellectual foundations of efficiency mandates today)

Direct-Use Natural Gas Needs a Free Market Too (‘deep decarbonization’ easy target for elimination in new policy era)

LEED: From Market Efficiency to Political Conservationism

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