White House backs plan to shut energy office in Boston

[highplainsdem]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/10/14/white_house_backs_plan_to_shut_energy_office_in_boston/

White House backs plan to shut energy office in Boston
Associated Press
October 14, 2005

BOSTON --The Bush administration is backing a Senate plan to close the Boston office of the U.S. Energy Department, worrying advocates who say it may be more difficult for poor and elderly residents to get energy assistance grants.

New Englanders would still be eligible for the federal grants, which help people make their homes more energy efficient. But elected officials and nonprofit agencies told The Boston Globe that closing the office would make it harder for local groups to apply.

The local energy office distributed tens of millions of dollars in grants last year and the agency recently paid to weatherize 2,600 homes in Massachusetts.

"This is clearly going to continue to put the Northeast at a disadvantage in the energy equation," said Larry Chretien, director of the nonprofit Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance, which gets grants from DOE's Boston office. "If this were a private corporation moving its jobs to West Virginia, we'd be raking it over the coals."

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[SpiralHawk]

1. "Let them burn beans." - G. W. Bush

"I've got mine. Screw them." - Republican Culture of Corruption Motto

[Davis_X_Machina]

2. Joe Kennedy's Citizens' Energy Corp. is the probable target n/t

[mom cat]

3. Good observation. These cuts will be brutal this winter....But Bush

doesn't care.

[Benhurst]

4. Makes sense. One really cold winter,

and the problem will go away. Think how much money can be saved! Rather than thinking "tragic loss," think "frozen assets."

:sarcasm:

[Javaman]

5. here we go folks, the great winter energy crisis of 2005-06 for those...

"blue" states.

Morons* motto, "fuck'm if they're blue".

He is just one sick mother fucker. Plain and simple.

colossal racist failure*.