BluePhantom
Educator (of liberals)
I have a simple question on energy and perhaps this not the place for it, first let me preface this by saying I'm one of those " all in" energy types" which means lets produce it all. That said, my question is on energy production , it would seem to me that if the goal is to produce more energy and do it in a manner that is environmentally friendly and promote jobs, the best place to start would be with putting solar panels on the roofs of everyones house as means to let , the "people" become their own energy producers. Maybe perhaps doing something like this might put some poor lobby group out of work on K Street? heaven forbid!! We sure do spend an awful lot of time regulating things that could be made cheaper to keep Washington employed.
Do you have any idea how expensive that would be? The problem with solar energy is that it's not cheap. It's ridiculously expensive. If it was cheaper than energy generated through fossil fuels everyone would be using it.
Think of hybrid cars. Yeah you save money on gas, but the cars itself, replacing the batteries, etc is so expensive that at the end of the day it costs more than a standard gas guzzler. Same concept with solar. And of course, how would that benefit people like me in Salem, Oregon where from October through March we get two...maybe three days of sun a month?
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