[garjog]

Wow. Three houses weatherized and 14 new jobs for only $20 million!

Seattle is like the Palestinian authority where the main industry is being a government paid bureaucrat.

Seattle opened up BIKE trails down town, using up whole lanes.

It is Obama Heaven and I bet after his landslide defeat in 2012, Obama will move to Seattle. He would be right at home.

[molson209]

just imagine if cap and trade had of passed and every other dumb green idea,wow, all the 10’s of billions + that would be wasted

[Robert A Cook PE]

But will the city hit its goals? Curtis was hopeful Seattle would make it by 2013, when the funding ends. Greenwich, of Puget Sound Sage, said the city needs to retrofit 100 to 200 homes a month to create 2,000 jobs. Woo, of Got Green, thinks the city needs to throw more money on incentives.

Greenwich said the energy retrofit market has turned out to be extremely complicated, with required hammering out of job standards, hiring practices, wages and how best to measure energy benefits.

So, almost 2 years into the program ...

And they haven't figured out how much insulation to throw into a ceiling.

How much to pay people.

How to measure how much energy is saved. (Hint: Have they tried comparing the electric and gas bills before and after? )