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.
Yes, but what they did FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELS like the right thing to do. AND that's what's important.
10 years from now, your kids (or grandkids) can work a second job to support them.
Don't get me started on how worthless "Alternative Energy" sources are. About the only thing that, IMHO, is marginally acceptable is anything with a massive water tank built in - the tank serves as a battery to hold the energy (heat). It still isn't great, and is better than nothing. But I'd not expect to get rich off what I save on hot water bills.