” in an effort to retrofit public and commercial buildings nationwide, pitching in approximately half of the $4 billion needed “
Isn’t a 50% kickback on lucrative Gummint Contracts a bit high, even by Chicago standards??
I entered the utility energy business in 1973. In 1978, I started working for a major utility research institute. Energy conservation retrofits were going on big-time after the very first OPEC oil embargo in 1973, almost 40 years ago.
Only in the fevered minds of parasites sucking off Washington DC would this new program be considered a "jump-start." This has to be the world's longest "jump-start." Government parasitism totally destroys brains and critical thinking capability.