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Posted on 02/28/2023 7:33:28 AM PST by george76
The project includes updating the utility service with backup emergency dual natural gas and propane. Adds a full building services generator to the facility for power, should normal utility power fail.
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Democrat Governor Tina Kotek, who previously promised to cut the state’s use of natural gas, is having a dual natural gas and propane backup generator installed at Mahonia Hall, the official residence of the Oregon governor.
According to the official bid, “The project includes updating the utility service with backup emergency dual natural gas and propane. Adds a full building services generator to the facility for power, should normal utility power fail.”
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The City of Salem permit describes the project as “Adding piping from existing NG (natural gas) Utilities to new generator.”
The project also includes adding a 500-gallon propane tank and a new outdoor concrete pad which will be covered with a new pergola structure.
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The project has a price tag of $308,934, which talk radio host Lars Larson told The Post Millennial, is at least four times what the project should reasonably cost based on the contractors he consulted.
Larson, who first revealed the massive expenditure, called it, “Gas for me and not for thee.”
During the Oregon Democrat’s campaign for governor, she stressed the importance of making it easier for Oregonians to buy and charge electric vehicles and claimed she would focus on reducing the use of natural gas.
Kotek has been under fire recently for not ending the state’s practice of using taxpayer funds to pay the travel expenses of state workers who decided to work remotely.
Republican state Sen. Tim Knopp has sponsored Legislative Concept 3697, a bill that would require state employees who live full time in other states to pay their own travel costs when they return to Oregon on state business.
According to data provided by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, at least 500 of the state’s 45,000 employees live and work far from Salem, sometimes thousands of miles away.
The agency’s list contains 494 employees but excludes workers at the Oregon Lottery, the State Treasury, the Secretary of State’s Office or the Department of Justice, which are classified as “full-time remote,” which according to the Willamette Week means they have received “permission to live and work in another state and are now expected to work in Oregon fewer than eight days a year.”
The list included 29 employees in Texas and 12 in Florida, both states with no income taxes. There are even four in Hawaii.
Knopp told the outlet, “I was outraged at the unfair policy and that taxpayers were footing the bill for out of state employees to be flown back into Oregon. The entire state senate has agreed with me and are sponsoring the bill.”
His actions shows he knows full well the climate policies he endorses are destroying or energy infrastructure, he is situating his residence to endure the collapse.
Also at 300k for a back up gas generator it screams kick back, that price is widely exorbitant!
With all the snow and cold temperatures lately, I’m going to punch the next greenie in the nose that tries to make the climate change narrative a fact.
I’m tellin’ ya’ll, they want it all for themselves!...
This is just the beginning!
EVs for you, ICE for them!................
It’s a small power plant
So the governor’s mansion will have backup natural gas and propane. Will the mansion be opened to all as community shelter during electric power blackouts?
That would be nice.
I have been making energy for nearly 40 years, work on nuclear and gas. 300k for any residential, even a mansion is beyond anything I can envision, it is extreme.
Obama recently installed 3 large propane tanks at his MV mansion - at sea level - for personal electrical production.
Yep, aware and read about those. His mansion is designed for long term survival. These people have plans and know something is coming, they could not care less about us.
Oregon ping
We are just seeing that this is business as usual for our grifting state governments [installed in rigged "elections"] - totally owned and operated by shady moneymen behind the scenes.
"Sinaloa Katie" Hobbs, cartel meatpuppet, comes immediately to mind.
I’m sure it’s all gold plated
Fascinating.
On the Secret Service's dime, no doubt.
Government union work.
Replacing the Y2K specials — The CAT 3516 STD
300k is 150k for the generic generator on a palletized mount and 150k for the electrical work and transfer switches on some old and crusty system....then deal with state goverment.
We assume a security office that must never go down. For our datarooms that would be an excelent price for 80KVA of installed base and 200KVA of peak. Add another 30K for batteries, solar inverters and such to take care the slack. We are sure the HVAC runs in the moderate state when the power goes out.
I assume it also involves a privacy fence, crane, and noise abatment. Government jobs always involve 18 tons of slung loads into someplace near imposable and never to a concreate pad next to a loading dock.
I wonder what size generator we are talking about here. I had a 22kw fully installed for about $14k.
Exactly, and her dumba$$ voters don't see it.
Tina Kotek = Shell Game Operator
A true democrat aka Shaft Inc.
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