Feds Unwrap $15M For Corporate Energy Reduction

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday September 29, 2008 @08:01AM from the irresponsible-spending dept.

As hard as it is to imagine, coondoggie writes with news that the federal government just unveiled a new energy bill that will offer $15 million in assistance to retailers who help to build and adopt energy-efficient technologies. "The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the first phase of $15 million awards to retailers Best Buy, JCPenney, John Deere, Macy's, SuperValu, Target, Toyota, and Whole Foods Market. Commercial Real Estate Firms such as CB Richard Ellis, Forest City Enterprises as well as the financials groups also saw some of the money. Along with the money the companies will have access to the DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to design, build, tune and operate at least one new prototype building and to retrofit an existing building project."

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Re:Imagine what they could do with 700 Billion.... by Anonymous Coward · 2008-09-29 08:35 · Score: 5, Interesting

I left the country for a few weeks, and now that I'm back, it feels like I'm "IN SOVIET RUSSIA" or something.
I mean, suddenly it's the Democrats who want to throw $700 Billion to our corporate overlords, and it's the Republicans who are (probably ineffectively) trying to put a stop to it. What a country!