The Paradox of Energy Efficiency

[GliderGuider]

21. My objection is not to reading, as you know.

Walls of text in OPs are off-putting. That's one advantage of the 4-paragraph rule on DU - it makes it more likely that people will actually read the post. As I told you, I downloaded and read the papers linked in the post you're referring to. I expect others to do the same if their comments are to be taken seriously.

Your attempt to create a meme that "expanding energy use is a right wing premise" is woefully off base. As far as I can tell, the expansion of energy use has been a fundamental premise of all societies going back to the stone age. The only thing the left has going for it is that more of us insist that the costs of expanded energy use be accounted for and mitigated.

The reason most people on both the left and right want efficiency isn't so that we will use less energy but so that we can do more with it. The massive improvement in energy intensity (aka energy efficiency) over the last 50 years hasn't resulted in less energy consumption, but rather in continuously expanding economies.