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To: TigerPaw who wrote (14524)	9/27/2022 11:09:57 PM
From: Kirk ©	2 Recommendations Recommended By Return to Sender sixty2nds Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26431

Dumb people ignore the up front costs of a much higher auto plus to the cost to install solar on the roof when they quote how much it costs to run their autos from their rooftop solar panels and batteries... What do the panels cost without subsidy? How much do they cost to dispose of properly, not dumping in a landfill? How long do they last? How does their efficiency curve look over time? ie how many sun hours is their life? yadda yadda If Taxifornica, rich people avoid subsidizing retired and poor low income people with cheap rates because that subsidy is built into the super high prices we pay. If those rich with solar and batteries need power from the grid, they charge at the lowest cost time of day, the dead of night... THUS AVOIDING the HUGE tax! (They usually don't get rich by being stupid.... ) Now "they" (ie Taxifornicans) want to charge a flat fee to recover some of this cost. Talk is $50 a month. My electric bill is $100 to $150 a month... so a third if replaced by solar would still have to be paid as a "tax." Much of this is hidden.... My "Rich Friends" get solar and batteries so they don't have to bother with diesel generators in power outages, they get the subsidies removed, they get huge tax credits to lower their taxes, etc... and they sleep better at night knowing hundreds of dollars of food won't spoil when we have hot weather and transformers start blowing up from too much heat from too many using electric to cool their homes. I've heard talk it is harder to sell a home with solar on the roof that has a loan on it... it is a lien on the property and more hassle to deal with. Many get those for "no up front cost solar" and they NO DOUBT have BUTLOADS of fees hidden in them... probably not calculated in lower operating costs.