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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: Gotta Get Rid of the GET Green Energy Boondoggle
Description: Full Text: It seems everywhere you look, “clean energy” is in the news. Portland just handed out nearly $120 million to local nonprofits who promise to provide clean energy technologies. Congress is expected to pass the slimmed down version of President Biden’s Build Back Better program, with more than $300 billion going to clean energy.
Much of this spending will be wasted if Oregon’s experience with an almost-unheard-of program is any guide. The program is called “1.5% for Green Energy Technology,” or GET.
Under the program, any government construction or renovation project costing $5 million or more must spend 1...