This story by Gabriel J. Wasserman of the Poughkeepsie Journal relates how the village of New Paltz finds the election campaign promises of the Green Party unworkable. After being swept into office in May with an agenda of powering the village's facilities with solar power, the Green Party Mayor, Jason West, stated:
''It's turning out to be a little more difficult than I'd hoped.''
I'll say. The proposed changeover to solar-powered electricity would cost the village only half of the actual cost (the other half being picked up by the State of New York), but would take fifty years to recoup through projected savings.
''It wouldn't be a very good demonstration of solar power,'' said alternative-energy enthusiast Richard Miller, a local architect who has helped shape and re-shape the village project. ''The idea is to make money, not lose money.''
Last I checked, the Green Party has no conception of the cost of anything. If they did, they wouldn't have much to promote. When cost is factored into their ideas, it becomes obvious that they are largely unworkable.
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