Union Wages make Obama’s Energy Efficiency Program Inefficient
By
robert108
on July 9, 2009 at 09:10 pm
Paying union labor $50-60.00/hour to caulk windows makes Obama’s “Weatherization Program” too costly to ever pay off as an “energy efficiency measure”. That is the kernal of truth reported by NPR here: “Weatherization Program Hits Rough Stretch” by Elizabeth Shogren:
Congress mandated that prevailing wages under the Davis-Bacon act must be paid to workers employed with “stimulous” funding.
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This of course makes “weatherization” of houses so costly it can never be paid back in “energy cost savings”.
This whole conundrum has stymied initiation of the program—an example of why the “stimulus funding” is not being spent.
This is why the govt is never “efficient”. No cost control.
