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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (594937)	12/4/2010 3:57:32 PM
From: i-node	4 Recommendations Respond to of 1583728

>> Because without the subsidies, it'd take a lot longer for your solar panels to pay for themselves. The truth is they don't make sense even WITH the subsidies. If we're going to subsidize energy transformation, could we not at least subsidize what makes good sense? We have enough nat. gas to run the entire country for decades, today, selling for the equivalent of $1/gallon of gas. We could end our dependence on foreign oil over ten years with a properly designed program. Yet this president is NOWHERE on it. NOWHERE. We have SO MUCH natural gas that the builders of natural gas import terminals only 5-10 years ago are now building EXPORT terminals - they can't sell our gas HERE, so they'll sell it to other countries. Never has there been a more crapped-up energy policy than what we've got under the nitwit in the WH. And that means Carter, too.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (594937)	12/4/2010 8:40:03 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1583728

I've been paying those subsidies for years, too. Still am. Nice to have some come back to me. They bill me once a year. If my net is negative, they pay me. If I consume more, I pay them at 13 cents or whatever it is. They read the meter monthly & bill me monthly for the subsidy and the hookup and whatever else there is..$4+. Always send me a nice little bar graph to show where I am. I get 2 pieces of mail/month from them (<: pge.com Looks something like this, but I only have one bar.