Biden Bans the Use of Fossil Fuels in New Federal Buildings

The mandate, authorized by a 2007 energy law signed by President George W. Bush

That is how far the Overton Window has moved.

Thanks for introducing a new term to me today.
Overton is rolling in his grave (rolling to the far right side of the coffin, but most are calling it the center of the coffin)
You mean voting works??? ShockedPikachu.jpg [while looking at retarded ideas to ban the EPA]
*I have no idea why this is being downvoted. The Overton Window moved because Trump won an election. Want to move the Overton Window? Then VOTE.
- My reading is that they mean to say the conservative party has continued to move so far to the right that conservative positions from only 15 years ago are now "radical lib" positions.
  Though I hesitate to frame this as the Overton Window. In society at large, the Overton Window continues to move to the left, being gay is normalized now, cannabis is normalized now, I would frame the conservative movement as a desperate grasping to prevent the Overton Window from continuing on its current path, normalizing a genderless society for example.
  Economically, both American parties are right wing corporate welfare state proponents.
  The united states is a corporate plutocracy, you can buy power and influence, and being poor is being increasingly criminalized. While the system squeezes wealth from the middle class like a sponge. It is engineered to transfer your life savings into the hands of the healthcare owners at the end of your life, instead of to your children.
  The poverty class grows.
- You think people voting once over a time span of four years is how the Overton window shifts? Lol come on you can't be for real
  Does Fox News not exist in this vacuum you describe?

Waiting for the "but but but Biden bad and doesn't do anything" comments.

aLL dEmOcRaTz sUpPoRt JeNoSiDe!!1
- Yeah it was pretty unanimously supported
yes offsetting climate emissions by the smallest possible degree is definitely equivalent to allowing the ongoing genocide attempt in gaza
legitimately what is your point?
- There he is! Wooooo

Looks like it bans natural gas. Doesn't mention diesel in the article. I was wondering what they'd do for backup power.

I don’t know about the particulars of this one, but these electrification mandates usually have exemptions for critical facilities and backup systems. It seems to be more about never using nat gas powered appliances like say a water heater. This also keeps in line with the new DC energy codes that are becoming mandatory in two years, and those have exemptions for diesel generators and such.
- I figured as much. Gotta have backup power.
The first sentence references fossil fuels. I'm pretty sure that means diesel.
Hey cool, we’re catching up to what the rest of the world was doing two decades ago!
Battery backups
- I'm not sure the reliability of those, but it's not like Diesel are any better when you have to change the fuel out every so often.
- For 23 minutes, yes.
Nor does it ban shitty construction materials made out of petroleum.

damn, it's almost like the "bridge fuel" talk about methane gas was full of shit

Im really confused about all this. It says it's a mandate from 2007. But Biden did it? But he's also not doing it until he's not president anymore...

starting in 2030

🥱

He won’t be in office, or alive, then.
- Or both! I'm gonna go get my yellow face paint for when dufus is made president again by the unknown electoral college.

No plastic in federal buildings?

Cool.

The article says fossil fuels. Not all petrochemical derivatives.
Reject the flimsyness of plastic embrace the strength and stubbornness of steel and stone!
- For Rock and Stone! ⛏️
- It's only Ashto Afpo for me.

aren't VA hospitals federal buildings?

are they just going to not have backup power past batteries in the case of an emergency?

Does the federal government actually care about the VA or veterans? I'm sure there are exclusions for life safety though.
- i mean maybe not, but they probably care about veterans above the average person in america, so not caring about veterans is probably a bad sign for said average person

Looks like Biden is poisoning the well - enabling a whole lot of "progressive" legislation in rapid succession that an incoming Republican regime will obviously undo first thing.

It tells me that Biden isn't banking on winning the election.

Ah yes, giving his voters what they want, the ultimate sign of defeat.
- Since when does the political establishment give the voting fodder anything they want?
He already won, he's running against the worlds biggest and greatest LOSER. NOBODY loses more than tRump! Go suck an egg Komrade
- Lol! If you say so.