Peter Huber elaborates the argument in his Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists (Basic Books, 1999).

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Now ( on p. 122) comes along Peter Huber, my favorite envirocolumnist, to say that comparing energy inputs to energy outputs is an accounting error.

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Here's another difficulty with efficiency standards: As Peter Huber suggested in Forbes ( May 18, 1998), they tend to backfire by inspiring consumers to consume more.

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