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In Case You Missed It - Watchdog.org: Congressional Leaders Charge ‘potentially deceptive sales tactics’ by SolarCity, others
Washington, DC,
January 8, 2015
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) was featured in a Watchdog.org article highlighting his efforts to investigate potentially harmful sales tactics by solar panel leasing companies throughout the Southwestern United States.
U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) was featured in a Watchdog.org article highlighting his efforts to investigate potentially harmful sales tactics by solar panel leasing companies throughout the Southwestern United States. From Watchdog.org: Spurred by consumer complaints that the massive savings they were promised never materialized, 12 Republicans and four Democrats have asked two federal regulatory agencies to investigate concerns that “these leases are not offered in good faith or with accurate disclosures.” Recent letters by the GOP to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and by Democrats to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau come on the heels of a year-long Watchdog.org investigation into SolarCity, one of the nation’s largest solar contractors. “I do not want the future of solar energy harmed if there are consumer scams going on that will cause thousands of people to question the entire solar industry based on their own bad experience,” U.S. Rep. Paul A. Gosar, R-Arizona, told Watchdog.org. “A free market depends on fairness, openness and honesty.” Gosar, an advocate of solar, initiated the GOP probe after receiving complaints from constituents… The letters by Gosar and U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Arizona, contain several pointed questions with the same theme: · What protections exist for customers entering into a solar contract? On December 16, 2014 Congressman Gosar spearheaded a letter to the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Edith Ramirez urging the Commission to investigate the sales practices of companies offering third-party leases for rooftop solar systems. The Congressman’s letter to FTC Chairwoman Ramirez can be found HERE. You can read the June 24, 2014 Bloomberg article titled “Rooftop Solar Leases Scaring Buyers When Homeowners Sell” by clicking HERE. You can read the November 22, 2014 op-ed by Sean Paige, senior fellow with the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, by clicking HERE. Other signees of the Congressman’s letter include Reps. Lamar Smith, David McKinley, Jeff Miller, Cynthia Lummis, Andy Harris, Morgan Griffith, Mo Brooks, Matt Salmon, Ted Poe, Alan Nunnelee and Trent Franks. ###
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