$8k???
That seems about double what they are down here in Florida.
These people are, first and foremost, misanthropes. They hate all people who are not them. They want them all to die so they can live in the Walden paradise that they believe they deserve.
Their only purpose is to overwhelm the system, to destroy everything that actually works, and replace those things with things that are outrageously expensive and inefficient so that all those smelly, stupid human beings who aren't them are driven into abject poverty and eventually starve.
None of their "sustainability" schemes are intended to work. Quite the opposite. It's really no more complicated than that.
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I fixed this to be accurate:
To overcome this "initial purchase price" obstacle, money stolen from taxpayers is needed so all these wonderful cost savings can be realized
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I fixed this to be accurate:
To overcome this "initial purchase price" obstacle, money stolen from taxpayers is needed so all these wonderful cost savings can be realized
My wife and our sons are contantly amazed about how incredible stupid, supposedly intelligent people are when it comes the stupid and expensive green energy.
We know this family of supposedly highly educated UC Berk people with a successful small winey and vineyard.
They just took money from their 401ks which were hammered during the meltdown to finance solar electric for their home, the winery and other sites.
They asked me about it, and I asked them what they were going to live on when they gave up their current jobs and had they talked to their CPA about the increase in taxes this year to pay for the very expensive outlay due to the heavy withdrawal from their 401k to pay for the solar cost.
They are smart and very dumb liberals. Their eyes just glazed over. They admitted that they hadn’t talked to their CPA.
Their eyes glazed over again, when I asked them what they would do in 10 years when they were in their mid 70’s to replace their worn out solar system.
My wife had shot down their wet dream about an all electric car a month ago. Now she feels that they will now buy an all electric car to use their new solar electricity.
I asked her when they were going to charge an all electric car because at night, the sun didn’t shine a whole lot to make electricity. They still work and in the fall and winter, they often get home after dark. That is too late to use solar electricity to charge your all electric vehicle.
I got something similar to this from an HVAC company who wanted me to sign up for a long-term program where they come out every year and “tune” my HVAC system. Under their program, I pay the “reduced” price of $150 per service, but for this year, there was a rebate which reduced the price to $78. I kept reading, and they started touting the “huge” savings in my utility bills of “up to $75 a year.”
I said to Hubby, “Oh look, a program for people who can’t do basic math.” I’ll tune up my own HVAC, thank you very much. Idiots.
I’m in Kentucky and I have a solar hot water heater. It works absolutely wonderful, the only time the electric backup kicks on is on cloudy days which are usually in winter.
Average savings savings for us is around $75 per month. That is based on electrical usage pre and post solar hot water heater installation.
I also had a solar unit in Florida, Two actually, the first panel went bad after five or so years the second panel was still good seven years after it was installed. The technology improves on those things all of the time.
The first panel and the second panel used a separately powered pump to move water through it. My current panel uses a separate solar DC panel to power the pump. The current model uses propylene Glycol for the heat transfer fluid and a transfer coil in the Hot water tank to heat up the water. My Florida units used to heat the water directly.