Bill Clinton Says 'Paint Your Roofs White'

Hugh Pickens writes "Former President Bill Clinton thinks 'every black roof in New York should be white; every roof in Chicago should be white; every roof in Little Rock should be white. Every flat tar-surface roof anywhere! In most of these places you could recover the cost of the paint and the labor in a week.' Noting that Mayor Bloomberg started a program to hire and train young people to paint New York's roofs white, Clinton says a big percentage of the kids have been able to parlay this simple work into higher-skilled training programs or energy-related retrofit jobs. The benefit: not only will 'cool roofs' lower the utility bill in every apartment house 10 to 20 percent, but it frees cash that can be spent to increase economic growth. Clinton presented this with fourteen additional ideas for growing the economy, saving energy, and attacking the jobs crisis."

Comments

you get a paint bruh and dip it in a pain buket

[decora]

after that mayb a nw kabird.

Re:Great, so how the hell do I paint ashalt shingl

[dlingman]

Pigeons. Lots of Pigeons. Just sprinkle roof with bread crumbs, and get out of the way.

Apologies to Mick, Keith and company

[surmak]

I see a black root and I want it painted white.
That way it's cooler and will reflect much more light.

I get the A/C bill and it is through the sky.
The cash I'm wasting there it makes me want to cry.

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Re:Great, so how the hell do I paint ashalt shingl

[elrous0]

Okay, I'll go back in time and have them build my house with those. I'll also make a plea to the homeowners association to allow this while I'm there and maybe stop 9-11 from happening. Anyone else have any requests for shit for me to do while I'm in 2000?

Re:HOA

[GodfatherofSoul]

Just tell them you've got a sure-fire proposal to get the "Black ones" out of the neighborhood. If you're lucky, they'll sign it without even bothering to read the fine print.

Re:Can't we get a color-changing paint?

[b4dc0d3r]

Sure, buy a lot of Kindles and change pages twice a year. A two-page PDF with one black and one blank page will do the trick.

Re:Great, so how the hell do I paint ashalt shingl

[ShavedOrangutan]

I bought into a non-HOA neighborhood. Now the builder who owns the empty lot next to mine is building a new house... sideways. There wasn't enough room to build the big hideous McMansion facing the street like everyone else, so he's putting it on the lot sideways. He just flushed the value of my house down the toilet.

So there are good reasons for HOAs.

Re:Reroof with solar panels

[gnick]

I've yet to see any savings. First I covered my flat roof with solar panels, then to go super-green I took the extra step of painting them all white. The house not only isn't cooler, but the energy efficiency of those panels is abysmal!

Re:I've got only one question:

[makubesu]

I heard his old house was completely white.