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No, Utilities are RICH!!! Do you have any idea what I pay for electricity in Texas, during the summer? No way that they aren’t pocketing most of it. I’m no dummy.

No, Utilities are RICH!!! Do you have any idea what I pay for electricity in Texas, during the summer? No way that they aren’t pocketing most of it. I’m no dummy.

I see what you did there, BobL.

I don't know about Texas, but in Alabama Obama made our power utility shut down a coal plant and replace it with "clean burning" natural gas (remember when the Dims were all in on natural gas?). That project alone cost over $1 billion, a cost spread out over 10 years to the consumers.

Then Brandon snuck into the WH and in his first week issued EO's making it harder to drill for natural gas, which lowered supply and made natural gas prices go up. Which made power rates go up (because the power utility adds as a rider per kWh their fuel cost). So I saw both my power bill shoot up again and my natural gas bill.

So I went solar, replaced my two natural gas appliances with high efficiency electric ones (replaced A/C and natural gas furnace with a variable speed heat pump and variable speed air handler, then replaced natural gas water heater with a hybrid water heater and do duct work magic to make the water heater work more efficiently). I liked it so much I did my Phase II and added to my solar and replaced my wife's old ICE crossover (since it needed replacing anyway) with an EV crossover (but still have an old ICE pickup for the few times that driving an EV won't do).

Now 80% of all the power we need comes from solar, including charging the EV. And we don't drive the ICE pickup nearly as much anymore, so we don't have to hardly buy gasoline. And no natural gas bill.

It's nowhere nearly as efficient as traditional energy would be if the Dims got out of the way. And solar wouldn't work on the grid nearly as well as it does for my home (or perhaps yours since much of Texas' climate is similar to mine). But it gives mine and my wife's retirement investments a buffer against the Dims' stupid energy policies. Plus it makes our power more dependable.