You are totally correct in everything you stated, but unfortunately people on the receiving end will ignore and attack you for saying it. But I, like many others will thank you for this eye opener! Keep it up please!
Thanks!! Truth conquers lies in the end -- please tell other people what you learn here. My goal is always to equip you and others to share these problems with those who walk around starry-eyed like they just saved the universe.... Amazingly, some Vermont legislators simply dismiss these problems, or even say it is worth the regressivity in order to protect the poor from climate change..... Total cognitive dissonance.
I love the logic and facts that you laid out. However in dealing with the left and their environmental religion facts do not matter. We need to adopt their tactics and appeal on our emotional level even if it means using false facts just like they do.
But we don't need to..... There is a genuine, not false, level on which taking from the poor to enrich yourself while selling good that pollute the environment has appeal to people with eyes to see and ears to hear..... We need not lie about anything: same with two genders, money supply, climate alarmism, and cow farts. :) Thanks for commenting!
Good article except "Jim Jones caused less harm compelling his followers to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid than Vermont’s legislators have inflicted with their unilateral, unproven fantasies" Over 900 dead in Jonestown by a madman. You lose credibility with such statements.
Perhaps I should emphasize the broader destructive consequences of poverty, as well as cancer from chemical pollutants. Your point is well taken though. I should have said "may well cause more deaths over time." Thanks.
What exactly would be equitable? We got solar panels on our home when we first moved to Vermont. Every winter we’ve had to pay an electric bill. Vermont is one of the cloudiest states. Not only do we rarely have net metering credits, those credits do expire. I’ve been extremely frustrated with the entire system. Not only did we at $30k for panel system we ifyten have to pay a monthly bill. This summer has been horrible with rain and clouds. We have little in net credits. We got the panels not because if the climate change farce but because we want to be off grid. But the storage wall unit is also ridiculously expensive. Not just the poor is getting screwed over but solar panel owners like me are too.
How are the panels delivering compared to design rating and estimated meteorological data? Any possible installation error? Mine have been within +/-5% estimated power output for 7 years, since I installed them. The return on capital spent from the credits are marginal at best, after the 30 % Fed tax credit. The truth is I would have been better off investing in bank CDs, it has not yet proven to be the investment I thought it was going to be. Living off grid is a different matter, I never did the economics on that vs other options.
I am sorry all who bought into the narrative were misled.
Can you say UNINFORMED CONSENT?
The whole push for solar and other supposedly green energy has always had the stench of scam to me. It's already becoming apparent that we taxpayers will be left with figuring out how/where to dispose the toxic trash from another ineffective, aged and ultimately obsolete Chinese import. No doubt, the poorer communities will get the "privilege" of hosting the dumps.
When I am pitched on solar panels for my roof I ask what happens if I need to replace my roof. Luckily, I am told, my roofer or carpenter can simply take them down, just takes part of a day, set them on the lawn and put them back up when the roof is replaced. Easypeasy.
Exactly my observation. Why use my home to support those panels? Also, what are the odds the angle and compass placement of the roof is optimum for solar collection?
When family is looking into installing panels in this way, I am trying to think how to pin down the cost (money and impact) of manufacturing, and also the structure by which the poor pay for the wealthier.
And the progs are doing the same thing (expropriating wealth from the poor to the rich) for heating fuel via S5. As much as they scream hottest year ever, more people die from cold weather than hot. Just more evidence that Vermont's arrogant legislators (and most corporate CEO's and government agencies) are just willing tools and fools of the World Economic Forum's Agenda 2030/Great Reset.
Good article, spot on as usual. It would be interesting to understand the economics of capital investment by citizens from the power companies point of view. Why is it not a better allocation of capital the power companies can manage and benefit from? Are they too conservative in their capital planning or already over committed in their contracts from weak management and therefore simply pass costs on to consumers, like a government operated agency would?
You are totally correct in everything you stated, but unfortunately people on the receiving end will ignore and attack you for saying it. But I, like many others will thank you for this eye opener! Keep it up please!
Thanks!! Truth conquers lies in the end -- please tell other people what you learn here. My goal is always to equip you and others to share these problems with those who walk around starry-eyed like they just saved the universe.... Amazingly, some Vermont legislators simply dismiss these problems, or even say it is worth the regressivity in order to protect the poor from climate change..... Total cognitive dissonance.
I love the logic and facts that you laid out. However in dealing with the left and their environmental religion facts do not matter. We need to adopt their tactics and appeal on our emotional level even if it means using false facts just like they do.
But we don't need to..... There is a genuine, not false, level on which taking from the poor to enrich yourself while selling good that pollute the environment has appeal to people with eyes to see and ears to hear..... We need not lie about anything: same with two genders, money supply, climate alarmism, and cow farts. :) Thanks for commenting!
I understand just trying to point out that the opposition ignores facts. Otherwise the policies would have never been implemented.
Good article except "Jim Jones caused less harm compelling his followers to drink cyanide-laced Kool-Aid than Vermont’s legislators have inflicted with their unilateral, unproven fantasies" Over 900 dead in Jonestown by a madman. You lose credibility with such statements.
Perhaps I should emphasize the broader destructive consequences of poverty, as well as cancer from chemical pollutants. Your point is well taken though. I should have said "may well cause more deaths over time." Thanks.
What exactly would be equitable? We got solar panels on our home when we first moved to Vermont. Every winter we’ve had to pay an electric bill. Vermont is one of the cloudiest states. Not only do we rarely have net metering credits, those credits do expire. I’ve been extremely frustrated with the entire system. Not only did we at $30k for panel system we ifyten have to pay a monthly bill. This summer has been horrible with rain and clouds. We have little in net credits. We got the panels not because if the climate change farce but because we want to be off grid. But the storage wall unit is also ridiculously expensive. Not just the poor is getting screwed over but solar panel owners like me are too.
How are the panels delivering compared to design rating and estimated meteorological data? Any possible installation error? Mine have been within +/-5% estimated power output for 7 years, since I installed them. The return on capital spent from the credits are marginal at best, after the 30 % Fed tax credit. The truth is I would have been better off investing in bank CDs, it has not yet proven to be the investment I thought it was going to be. Living off grid is a different matter, I never did the economics on that vs other options.
I am sorry all who bought into the narrative were misled.
Can you say UNINFORMED CONSENT?
The whole push for solar and other supposedly green energy has always had the stench of scam to me. It's already becoming apparent that we taxpayers will be left with figuring out how/where to dispose the toxic trash from another ineffective, aged and ultimately obsolete Chinese import. No doubt, the poorer communities will get the "privilege" of hosting the dumps.
When I am pitched on solar panels for my roof I ask what happens if I need to replace my roof. Luckily, I am told, my roofer or carpenter can simply take them down, just takes part of a day, set them on the lawn and put them back up when the roof is replaced. Easypeasy.
Exactly my observation. Why use my home to support those panels? Also, what are the odds the angle and compass placement of the roof is optimum for solar collection?
In the DPS 2021 annual report to the legislature Ed McNamara pointed out the absurdity of net metered solar. When carbon reduction strategies are examined based on the cost per ton of carbon removed, net metered 5 kw (rooftop) solar costs $9,325 per ton of carbon removed. Compare this to residential weatherization, which costs only $16 per ton of carbon removed. Here's a link to the report, (see graph on page 9): legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2022/WorkGroups/Senate%20Natural%20Resources/Reports%20and%20Resources/Energy/W~Ed%20McNamara~Annual%20Energy%20Report%202021,%20%20DPS~1-15-2021.pdf
When family is looking into installing panels in this way, I am trying to think how to pin down the cost (money and impact) of manufacturing, and also the structure by which the poor pay for the wealthier.
And the progs are doing the same thing (expropriating wealth from the poor to the rich) for heating fuel via S5. As much as they scream hottest year ever, more people die from cold weather than hot. Just more evidence that Vermont's arrogant legislators (and most corporate CEO's and government agencies) are just willing tools and fools of the World Economic Forum's Agenda 2030/Great Reset.
Good article, spot on as usual. It would be interesting to understand the economics of capital investment by citizens from the power companies point of view. Why is it not a better allocation of capital the power companies can manage and benefit from? Are they too conservative in their capital planning or already over committed in their contracts from weak management and therefore simply pass costs on to consumers, like a government operated agency would?
The fact that people on the left almost always seem angry provides evidence that ignorance is not bliss.