Next Monday, if everything goes right, we should be getting solar panels installed on our shed roof. We will generate all the electricity we use.
President Obama recently spoke at an energy conference in Las Vegas. He noted that fossil fuel interests are trying to restrict consumers from accessing solar, wind, and other renewable sources to protect the status quo.
“That’s not the American way. This is about the past versus the future. America believes in the future.”
He said that many in the fossil fuel industry champion free market solutions, unless the free market is pointing to the wisdom of renewable energy. He said that fossil fuel proponents are pro-free market until solar starts working, and then they oppose free market ideas.
It really has nothing to do with the free market. It has to do with greed and monopoly power.
Information on the President’s speech is taken from “Obama calls out fossil fuel interests for fighting solar,” Lancaster Farming, Sept. 12, 2015, p. E4.
Two thumbs up on your independence from big business.
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