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To: Vaduz
Now you know why I installed a bunch of solar, converted my two natural gas appliances to electric, and when it was time to replace my wife's car anyway I replaced it with an EV car.

A few of us conservatives who live in conditions favorable for solar are doing it to make our homes as energy independent as we can without curbing our lifestyles. By my wife and I doing most of our driving in the EV (but having the ICE pickup for the times an EV won't do) the home's energy independence is transferred to our local transportation being mostly energy independent too. End result: 80% of our power needs come from solar and we have to buy only the other 20%. No natural gas bill. And buying only a little gas at the pump (for what little we buy the ICE pickup).

It won't work for everyone. It requires a lot of homework to see if your area and your energy consumption habits and driving habits are conducive for solar and/or an EV. And if so, some things have to be timed to be financially beneficial (i.e. if buying an EV wait until you're having to replace your old ICE car anyway, or before installing solar panels, if on the roof, then don't do it only a few years before you have to replace your old shingle roof, etc.). And even then do some more homework to make sure you're not cheated by the installers, and when installed be sure to tweak the configuration to best support your energy consumption habits with the least amount of pull from the grid. And if you pay for it with a HELOC loan like I did, you need to wait until the Fed lowers interest rates again like they were 2 years ago.

But if you works for you, it's a sweet feeling to not have to worry about the Dims' stupid energy policies destroying your retirement financial planning.

9 posted on 05/11/2023 10:20:22 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

Tonight, take the charger and shove it up your arse.


20 posted on 05/11/2023 1:53:13 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Tell It Right

You are not a conservative. Don’t give us that BS. You are obvioulsy a paid green EV lobbyist.


21 posted on 05/11/2023 1:54:12 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Tell It Right

Waste of money hydrogen powered stoves were used by the brits in ww2 hydrogen fuel cells and other units cover what you need.

No mercury like the solar cells have cars go farter the the EV town cars.


23 posted on 05/12/2023 8:00:45 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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