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Roof, you ask, "what do I think?" Here's my $.02... I think you are right- the issue has nothing to do with Chavez grandstanding because Sununu is doing the same thing. The disgrace is not in Chavez' offer, but the fact that we are now in a position where Chavez' offer of charity is a "god-send" for so many people.
I'm not sure you can get a ground-source heat pump and all the plumbing installed for $7500- you would know far better than I would on that, so I'll take your word for it, but that seems awfully low to me based on what I've read. Twice that is what I have heard in the past.
However, I'm not sure you understand the predicament that these people facing a $7500 winter heating bill are up against- they cannot even begin to pay that, so a heat pump is pie in the sky for them. If not for charity, they would likely freeze to death in their own homes, and thanks to Chavez, they might defer that for another winter while pompous a$$es like Sununu kicks the charity in the teeth but provides nothing as an alternative. Pride goes before a fall and a haughty spirit before destruction- thats what Sununu is bringing down on the new "poor."