State politicians allowed energy lobbyists to write a bill chocked full of incentives for "clean" power. Surprisingly, the bill is chocked full of huge loopholes allowing companies to snag large sums of taxpayer money with no production requirement. Companies that have yet to produce one watt for public use have gotten many times the incentives of companies that are actually producing energy.
We are in favor of clean alternative energy in the US on a competitive basis. We believe there is a place for government incentives, because the whole energy industry is so bogged down in government mandate anyway that any move one way or the other is a relative incentive or penalty regardless.
We are not familiar with the OR legislation. But we are familiar with the voters in OR being so self-satisfied, naive, and out of touch, that emotional leftist imbalances are fully understandable.
That’s also happening in Wisconsin but in Wisconsin here is the difference
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