The Omaha Bugle‘s senior correspondents, Adam and Jeff, examine the wisdom of the government’s latest efforts to convince people to give up their comparatively efficient gas appliances in favor of electrical appliances in order to save the world from a global climate catastrophe. Or at least make them feel more socially virtuous for a while. The use of efficiency mandates promulgated by untouchable government bureaucrats is a basic strategy of the new green theology. Adam and Jeff wonder if any of these green theocrats have ever thought about the consequences of their actions in terms of costs and benefits, or if it is all simply a good, old-fashioned power grab. Unfortunately, the powers-that-be do not seem to understand that their attempts to make everything electric merely overloads an already-creaky grid that is still powered largely by fossil fuels.