I'd love to have an electric car for doing around town errands; it would put less pollution into the surrounding air. And I'd also like to have a house with a big enough land area to put in a big solar array to power the house, so when I plugged the car into it, it's essentially free energy for me. Yeah, I know about the costs associated with the collectors, but hubby will be assembling and connecting those, so we wouldn't be paying 'retail' for them, anyway.
I guess you'd call us 'crunchy conservatives', but I don't care what anyone else drives, I'm just looking at what we drive. Of course, hubby will still have his Ford F250 Turbo Diesel, which he calls his F1250 Global Warmer, with the Middle Finger Option, so we DO have a sense of humor about the environment. ;o)
Awesome!!
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Right now solar is often more expensive over its expected lifetime than your outlet. The only way you save is through subsidies and tax breaks. Not long ago companies started producing solar cells at a cost of 1 cent per watt. Add to that the packaging, etc., for a solar system you might be able to find them in a few years for maybe $2,000 per kilowatt rather than the current $8,000+. Then that'll be cheap electricity.