The Republican leadership in the House has accused the administration of plotting to raise the price of energy through onerous regulation, in an effort to promote otherwise uncompetitive green technologies.
Moreover, because we are already too busy and too stressed trying to get our "real" work done, the last thing most of us want is to have to devote even more precious time and energy towards onerous and potentially divisive new assessment procedures.
If global governments react to oil spills by slapping energy companies with onerous taxes and regulations, there could be serious repercussions for investors, as well as corporations and governments.
Yet Proterra's buses are likely compelling to municipalities for a host of other reasons, including a regenerative breaking system that can almost fully recharge each bus's two mattress-sized battery packs via kinetic energy, and less onerous maintenance costs.
Walking along the street became onerous: I lacked both strength and energy.
These are not onerous delays for a long-term energy project.
The trade delegation announcement coincided with new reports that India, an important consumer of Iranian oil, had eclipsed China for the first time as Iran's No. 1 petroleum customer last month, subverting efforts by the United States to persuade other countries to find non-Iranian sources for their energy needs or risk onerous penalties under a new American sanctions law.
Last year's bill, Democratic aides said, contained better consumer protections on utility issues, did more to promote renewable energy sources, had less onerous provisions on hydroelectric power and addressed climate-change issues when the developing Senate bill might have ignored that subject.
They are unlikely to jump ship, especially when a Democratic administration is working on new regulations over financial services, health care and energy that business views as potentially onerous.
CJ: I think it's been troubling for companies of all sizes, in terms of just being more onerous in terms of the expenses and the energy that management spends in order to comply with the regulations.
