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Related: About this forumTrump wants to kill the Energy Star program. Guess what his motive might be?
Another day, another grift. The EPA's Energy Star program has been, for consumers, a raging success. A label, right there on each of the displayed home appliances in a store, tells you flat-out how much electricity your latest purchase is going to use and what it's going to cost you; if you want a version that costs less, you can easily find a brand that's more energy-efficient and go from there. If the program didn't exist, such comparisons would be impossible.
So of course Team Trump wants to murder the thing. And of course there's a link to his own businesses involved here, because the program also includes voluntary scoring of commercial real estate buildings. Guess what?
Trump's properties tend to receive low Energy Star ratings. The most recent scores from 2015 reveal that 11 of his 15 skyscrapers in New York, Chicago and San Francisco are less energy efficient than most comparable buildings. On a scale of 1 to 100 for energy efficiency, Manhattan's old Mayfair Hotel, which Trump converted into condos, rated a 1.
But none of this could matter if the administration has its way. It has proposed cutting all funding to the Energy Star Program, run by the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Ilsa
(61,695 posts)I never considered it was because his properties were substandard.
iluvtennis
(19,858 posts)chwaliszewski
(1,514 posts)I don't know how much Dolt45 owes to his creditors but something tells me it will be nil before the end of his term. What a fucking parasite.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)I hope people are out in front protesting it....
LOVELY!!
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)He wants to build one in Seattle.
We can't deny the building permits for a Trump building but we can make it an unpleasant place to stay.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Let them hire more security, it will cost them more money.
RainCaster
(10,877 posts)We can cause work stoppages that are very expensive. Perhaps we'll find arrowheads when the foundation is dug. This Emerald City doesn't like the Cheeto Tweeter.
dchill
(38,493 posts)regulation or law that Julius and his minions don't want to throw a Golden Shower for. They're bad for bad business.