{"id":790,"date":"2011-04-24T14:07:16","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T18:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/energyrealist.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2011-04-24T14:07:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T18:07:16","slug":"the-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"The budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are couple of pictures visualizing the US budget.\u00a0 It is detail from a project at\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/datavizchallenge.org\/viz\/56\">http:\/\/datavizchallenge.org\/viz\/56<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The top chart is the total budget, with the energy sector shown by arrow, the bottom chart shows that little slice in more detail &#8211; the arrowed section deals with renewable energy projects.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_791\" style=\"width: 581px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/budget-energy-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-791\" class=\"size-full wp-image-791\" title=\"budget energy 1\" src=\"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/budget-energy-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/budget-energy-1.png 571w, https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/budget-energy-1-259x300.png 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not a lot of the total goes to energy - it&#39;s the very small light blue sliver above<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_792\" style=\"width: 353px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/budget-energy-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-792\" class=\"size-full wp-image-792\" title=\"budget energy 2\" src=\"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/budget-energy-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/budget-energy-2.png 343w, https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/budget-energy-2-234x300.png 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">...and from that small sliver this is how much goes to renewables - (there seems to be a problem with the chart and 2 sectors are labeled &quot;Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy&quot; - it&#39;s still a minor portion of the total)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>OK &#8211; so it&#8217;s not the full story &#8211; other tax dollars, from states, or surcharges on utility bills, also go to feeding renewable energy and conservation efforts.\u00a0 There are also research projects in defense, agriculture, education etc. &#8211; some of which may have some benefit on energy efficiency and renewable energy.\u00a0 But in the larger picture its a very small sliver of everything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>does not have much for energy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/energyrealist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}