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It's NOT for the farmer. The farmer sold the farm. The supply goes into storage. It doesn't even serve the people locally.

And how much did everything cost you??

My original system cost almost $33K ($24K after the 26% solar tax credit). I paid for that cost with a HELOC. I also spent almost $20K converting my natural gas appliances to electric. So I no longer have a natural gas bill. And my power bill last month was under $40. Not too shabby for a two-story house that I'm now having to use power to cool.

It'll take about 10 years to pay for itself, including the interest on the HELOC. And that assumes only a 3% inflation rate on the energy costs I'm avoiding. If the Dims keep making energy costs rise bigly, my system will pay for itself sooner.

These numbers don't include the upgrade and EV savings. I don't have a year's worth of data on those yet, all I can give you for them are projections and hope my assumptions are as accurate for the upgrade and EV as my assumptions were for my original solar system.