Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by potato3732842 235 days ago
>At the same time, MA politicians created the “Mass Save” program that’s effectively a giant boondoggle where utility ratepayers are subsidizing fly-by-night “energy efficiency” contractors who have no incentive to be efficient at all.

Who were they trying to pander to by doing that? Who's votes did the politicians expect to reap?

I feel like the goddamn goose in the meme.

They did that stuff because well off white collar jerks with no problems thought it sounded good. And now, as usual, the rest of society has to pay for it.