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Solar Power Is Booming — Why Do We Want To Kill It?
TaeKwonDood writes with a followup to the news we discussed over the weekend about tariffs being places on Chinese solar panels. He writes,
"According to Forbes, 'Solar power is booming. Imports from China were a tepid $21 million in 2005, but in 2011 installations totaled nearly $2.7 billion. That's a huge win. And just as advocates for solar power had hoped, a larger market drove down prices. Solar energy cost has declined by two-thirds in the last four years, meaning it will soon start to close in on fossil fuels.' There's just one problem: now the government wants to kill it. The article continues, 'As the market was flooded by both silicon (from silicon producers) and thin-film panels (by Chinese manufacturers), the price for thin-film panels came crashing down – along with Solyndra’s business model. ... Yet that isn’t the only instance of mismanagement. The whole clean energy program remains flawed, even at the consumer level. The people who are the most likely to be impacted by high energy prices, the poor, are the least likely to benefit from the solar rebate scheme because they lack the capital to pay for the installation.'"
So you are complaining that the Chinese are taking a few of your dollars and giving you a superior product at a tiny price? So let's see - do you want things for the sake of having them or do you want things so that you can work to make them?
My point is that while the Chinese are having this ridiculous policy of subsidising your purchasing power (both, with any kind of direct subsidies to their manufacturers and by destroying their own currency to give you the cheapest price possible), you are complaining that you are getting a product at the cheapest price possible.
Well then. Why don't you start a war?
You can't handle the truth.
Then they complain about how Solar power is "not financially viable", and likewise for wind, geothermal, and pretty much every other renewable resource we've got. The Republicans gave the corn lobby a massive gift when Dumbya's administration outlawed MTBE and forced 10% corn ethanol into gas nationwide, despite the fact that corn ethanol is a net loss of energy (1.8 units used for every 1 unit produced) to make. The subsidization of the oil industry is orders of magnitude larger than any subsidization we've ever given to clean power.
WTF? Al Gore went around for YEARS telling everyone corn ethanol was going to save the planet. So Bush did something Gore begged for and Bush is the only one at fault? THIS is why you don't compromise with the DNC. Their policies are all complete failure and if the GOP gave a SINGLE vote at any point during the process of putting the failed policy into place it suddenly becomes completely their fault.
I swear, liberals have become so stupid they don't even realize how dumb they sound anymore.