College President Pushes Conservation While Taxpayers Pay $30K A Year In Energy Costs For Her House

Michigan Capitol Confidential ^ | 8/27/2012 | Tom Gantert

[MichCapCon]

University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman has said her college needs to be a global leader when dealing with energy sustainability.

Yet, Coleman's own university provided residence has the most expensive energy costs among state universities, both in total costs and cost per square feet, with a gas-electric-steam bill reaching nearly $30,000 in one year.

When receiving a grant for "sustainablity fellows" from Dow Chemical last year to help people "live cleaner, greener and sustainably," Coleman said: "[This partnership] is broad and comprehensive as sustainablity itself, and frankly, I believe it is the only way to solve problems as pervasive as the ones that we are facing in protecting our natural world."

But Coleman’s own electricity, gas and steam bill has varied from $19,448 to $29,807 between 2010-12. That bill was $22,591 in 2012, or $1.61 per square foot. DTE estimates its average residential electrical and gas rates are $2,160 a year.

[poobear]

Those Commie Elitists are funny aren’t they? Just a bag of laughs when it comes to wealth redistribution don’t you think?

[freedumb2003]

The Al Gore school of conservation: it is for THEE but not for ME!

[freekitty]

Greens.... The Communist and money laundering way

[cripplecreek]

I say rent her an apartment in student housing and call it good.

Another piece of news I gleaned today is that UofM has a record number of new students.

If anyone wants to be added to the Michigan Cap Con ping list, let me know.

[bgill]

Mine was less than $2000 for the past year including water. Some are more equal than others.

[bravo whiskey]

:Another piece of news I gleaned today is that UofM has a record number of new students.”

a record number of stupid degrees and overwhelming debt. anybody who wants to teach should get a teaching certificate AFTER they have a degree in what they want to teach. and they don’t need some bs/ms teacher degree.

[cripplecreek]

Moe than 5000 new Ann Arbor residents.

[cripplecreek]

anybody who wants to teach should get a teaching certificate AFTER they have a degree in what they want to teach. and they don’t need some bs/ms teacher degree.

That BTW is exactly what Hillsdale college is doing. They aren't offering teaching degrees without a real 4 year degree in something else. If you want to work on the teaching degree at the same time they have a deal set up with Spring Arbor college about 25 miles to the north.

[Secret Agent Man]

Cool I am 7-8 times more efficient and less wasteful than this hypocritical lib.