I would guess this has a lot to do with the high minimum wage in Portland which made business move and they need a new line of revenue. Their arrogance will be their downfall.
“Clean Energy Works conducted energy audits—and then, for a fee, referred homeowners to contractors for retrofits.”
so, with $30 million taxpayer funding, and say an average $400 cost (via homeadvisor.com) to perform an energy audit and make a contractor referral by a private company, that should cover 75,000 audits ... i wonder how many audits they ACTUALLY did for that $30 million dollars? ...
Oregone for Decades, has no sales tax.
So this is new and targets those who earn money and spend it in, Oregone for Decades!
Morons on parade. When Walmart moves out and low income Porlanders can’t access reasonably priced goods I hope they show up out front of these idiots homes looking for answers.
We said that they just want another excuse to take money from producers and give it to indolent slobs who vote democrat.
Soak ‘em. It’ll just be passed on to the public who voted for it.
“Unlike market-rate buildings, where landlords pass along utility costs to tenants and so have little motivation to weatherize, nonprofits that own subsidized housing have a big incentive to save money but often can’t afford to.”
right, because po’ folks who rent privately owned dwellings should be treated as second-class citizens who must pay for the sins of their landlords, whereas those who rent taxpayer-subsidized dwellings get even MORE taxpayer-subsidized freebees ...
“Both men say PCEF can thrive where the nonprofits they ran could not because the program won’t be measured by the strict financial metrics that utility-funded projects are measured by. Instead, PCEF projects can focus more on less easily measured health and climate benefits.”
in other words, PCEF will be freed up to squander their taxpayer money in whatever vague and nebulous fashion they see fit ...
CLEARLY, this utopian, taxpayer-funded, feel-good scheme is doomed from the very start to totally squander this lot of taxpayer money, while funding an entirely new bureaucracy of very highly paid managers and executives ...
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Question for Portland residents who have invested in solar panels. Given the rainy and overcast days in the Portland area, are solar panels worth the investment?
Hasn’t Oregon invested wisely in hydroelectric power?
Communists always create a crisis to take money from and control the population.
Thats it.
They only want to be masters over the masses. They hate individual freedom. They can’t stand the idea of self made people.
One MUST obey their groupthink. Any outliers are punished.
They ARE The Matrix.
Taxation is legal plunder.
She should return to working those street corners and back alleys...
Exactly what evidence is there that “people of color,” living in the same city as white people, “suffer” the worst effects of global warming, or that there ARE demonstrable negative effects from global warming in the Portland area, or that businesses like Walmart are the primary cause of it? The whole policy is based on unproven and unexamined presumptions.
A Socialist slush fund. Congratulations Portland
LOL! The funniest part: They think the "big retailers" will pay this tax!!
Not really. Portland has been like this long enough for there to have been a television comedy about the sickly pretension of its "woke" inhabitants. What is interesting about this sentence is that while they do know who they want to plunder - evil capitalist corporations - what they're going to do with the swag is still undetermined. But I think I know. It will go where it always does - into the capacious pockets of the self-adoring social warriors. Look, for example, at the well-fed, self-righteous little gauleiter in the picture. That's where.
Maybe she could use the first couple of bucks to buy herself a hairbrush. Nappy headed ho.
The goal is full blown Communism.
I regurgitate at the idea someone has failed these people.
Total B. S.
Who gives people this F’d in the head, power?
Didn’t Obama have the same intentions with the $787B “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009”?
“Invest in infrastructure, education, health, and renewable energy”
How’d that work out?