Ever heard of the Energy Advisory Board?  Me neither until I read this article by Penny Star at CNSNews.com.  Apparently this board of former Clinton cabinet members has a mandate to advance the “deployment of clean energy.”  Of course there are the usual subsidies, but the best part according to Cathy Zoi, Deputy Secretary of Energy is that 'we get to mandate'... "That’s an existing statute that this Department of Energy is going to make work really hard,” Zoi said. “We’ve already issued appliance standards that are going to save the American public somewhere between $250 billion and $300 billion over the next 20 years, just by getting the crummy stuff off the market.  We’re going to update [the standards] more frequently” said Zoi. “We have the power to do that in the statute.”