Posted on 08/06/2011 3:18:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Home and business owners who plan to rebuild after the June 1st tornados might be eligible for state money if they decide to 'go green'.
The new incentives, offered by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources, will be given to anyone who has had damage from the tornados and plans to make energy efficient upgrades to their home as they rebuild.
Bobbie Williams and her husband were at their home on King Street when the tornado hit.
They have been living in a trailer for two months as they try to rebuild their home and plan to take advantage of the state offer.
"We're going to put up a two car garage and then we'll put solar panels on top of the garage, " said Williams.
For more information about the incentives, click here .
I know someone from Greensburg Kansas. He isn’t from there any more because the greening of Greensburg made it too expensive for him to live there.
Sure they want you to go green. It costs more money for every item to have the phrase printed on the label. You can charge more for it because ignorants feel better reading the words.
“Go Green” and get a free wad of somebody else’s money. Geez! Have Americans really stooped that low?
Indeed, that little burg looked a whole lot more "gentrified" than the surrounding zillions of miles of nothingness.
And.. while I have a big problem on using government funding, private companies can do what ever they want as they have to answer to shareholders. It is not uncommon for utility companies and HVAC companies fore example to have various incentives that will in the end contribute to reducing the return in investment time.
Yes, that’s the rub. I have some VERY rich friends, who just this year got their FREE golf cart. Some are Republicans too, very sickening. They see it as, well it was available, why not.
Heard ENERGY STAR® products are overly expensive just because of the Green Labels. Plus, I don’t mean to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but I’m a believer that their control system circuits have a ‘special’ chip embedded that can monitor your power usage, ie using your heat or a/c too much, and SHUT YOU DOWN if you violate the Green Power Limitation Rules.
I have stood at Home Depots, Lowes and grocery lanes that have light bulbs. So far, the most expensive one I’ve seen goes for $18 a pop. Just the thought of that is over the top. One light bulb = a big steak dinner at Texas Roadhouse.
With nat gas getting cheaper and more abundant by the day, I can’t see where any of this stuff makes economic sense. Only political mayhem can push it forward.
Two words come to mind when I see anything promoted as ‘green’;
Scam and Gullible.
I brought this up to a ultra lib girl at work and she gave me a super long[wouldn't slow down long enough to catch her breath]sermon about how it's about time something was done to protect the environment and people like me should be locked up for not buying into the green movement crap.Guess she's all for reconditioning camps,too.
I am shocked how tyranny is an acceptable answer for the environuts.
But then again, when they think it is acceptable to make their argument like this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSTLDel-G9k&feature=player_embedded
then I can understand how the communists, fascists and Nazi’s came to power, because only that level of extremist could find it this sort of intimidation acceptable.
LMAO!!
John,
New material (( ping )).
LOL! Oh yeah, and then some.
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