Clean energy updates, Craziness?

they hope to update 9,000,000 home in the next 9 years. Or about 1,000,000 a year.
In California
they anticipate that there will be a $500 charge to the home owner for analyzing the needs.

That means the home owners will pay $500,000,000 per year to the company proposing the retrofits.

Now , if they are hoping to update 1,000,000 homes a year, and the average cost would be, say, $10,000, that would mean that $10 Billion dollars a year in expenses.

Now if the Government gives credits for the work at 50%, it will cost the State 2.5 billion a year.

Oh, now they are talking about the banks lending the money to the users, and it might run at 19% interest on the loans.

And they want private money to get into the act.

And still no estimates of cost benefit analysis being performed.

What I want to know is why anyone thinks that this is a good deal.

Or, as I have consistently said, never believe the facts that a person, who is selling something to you, presents to you as proof it is a good deal.

I have trouble understand why people believe that the government should finance this sort of stuff. If it provides a substancial benefit to the home owner , or the the business, why wouldn't the person finance it themselves, without money from the government.

And you wonder why the government is growing and costing more and more each month.

ah, the magic of municipal financing1

This week in Santa Rosa, Ca. the city council held a closed session on labor negotiations, and when I spoke on the subject the city council censored the video on-ine and ommitted the Start of the Meeting, the Roll Call, the Report on closed session, and my comments on the labor negotiations.

The city council must be really afraid of showing the public what members of the public want to tell the City Council.

it is amazing that politicans say they want public input , but, they sure as hell don't want the public to see any of the comments or show them in the minutes.

what ever happened to Honesty in Local Governments.

I guess the Progressive Agenda is in effect in Santa Rosa.

Trader Jack, aka Brown Act Jack

What is there about Politicans that make them hide from the public

Having been alive now for 88 years, I think that the one thing that politicans do not like , is a person asking questions that require an answer. No matter what the problem is, or the question being asked is, the politicans seem to believe that no answer is necessary.

Seems to me that politicans have been advised by their respective attorneys, that questions need not be answered, only official inquiries for public records need be responded to.

When a city council has a meeting, regardless of the subject matter, and the length of material presented by the staff, that a citizen can only comment on the matter for 3 minutes, or the arbitrary limit in time set by the rules.

That way the City Officials are not burdened with a lot of information that requires reply and can just do as they wish. How many times have I sat through a meeting and watch the city council listen to the public as they read the staff reporrs, and then do not respond.

It seems that they do not want any discussion about the problems, just want to take the words of the staff as gospel.

You would think that people in those positions would realize the the presenter for the motion almost always have financial things in mind when the talk, and the public might be the only people who can contradict the other side. Ah, but that would require consideration of the views of the public.

Need I repeat my self.

Sonoma County Counsel and the Brown Act

Amazing the tricks the attorneys use to try to explain why the Brown Act wasn't violated by the Board of Supervisors actions, isn't it. Yes they did something that should have been announced on the agenda, yes they did something that should have been disclosed after the closed session, but, hey, it still have to go through the adminstrative process to become effective. What, the County Counsel didn't understand the clarity of the Brown Act?. Ah, but you see, the County Counsel must defend the Board of Supervisiors if the Board of Supervisors is not complying with the law. and the County Counsel can not tell anyone anything that puts the Board at risk, at least in my humble opinion! This too shall pass, somehow, somewhere, a deal will be struck. As usual.