I think anyone who has been paying attention to the budget process is well aware of the costs to the state due to oil tax credit of which is estimated to be over 700 million this year alone and remember that tax credit is part of a program for small producers where the state actually pays them back cash buying back their tax credits. 700 million is a million or two over what any state income or sales tax will generate as well as the theft of the 1,000.00 a year for the next 3 to 5 years from the citizen's PFD (another tax) of approx. 2.2 million combined both of these taxes and theft of our PFD still does not generate the offset. 
But I digress and so have you this article is about the cost of energy savings and my comments were directed to an necessary expenditure by the state considering it could have been fully funded with a loan and the cost of the loan offset by savings of 15k a month. That 15k a month should go back to the state to offset our costs to them. Poor business