In Case You Missed It - Watchdog.org: Congressional Leaders Charge "Potentially Deceptive Dales Tactics' by SolarCity, Others

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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?
· What safeguards are in place to ensure customers have full disclosure pertaining to the contract?
· What is being done about consumer complaints?

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