local government = revenue from taxes. If the home owners don’t have the money to buy solar, being taxed enough by the local government to pay for solar isn’t going to work either.
power company = nearly all are either co-ops (owned by the consumers) where you’d get the same problem with taxing, or private companies which are for-profit driven industries.
If you’re actually interested in affecting change, you’re going to need to do more than say “someone else should pay for it”. Even more if you’re saying “something I don’t support is getting money, and I want that money to go to the thing I support instead”. Unless you happen to be an authoritarian dictator where your will is law, you have to work within the system if you want change. So far I’m not seeing what you’re posting as a path that will become reality.
If I’ve mistaken your intentions and you just want to have someone else solve the big problem without addressing any of the smaller problems that creates, then I supposed your work is done. Carry on.
Its not just his opinion: its pretty well established that we need to develop this for our future
I agree we need to develop it. What is unrealistic is saying “thing X should happen and someone else should pay for it exclusively”. That’s what will keep this a pipe dream instead of turning it into actual reality.
local government = revenue from taxes. If the home owners don’t have the money to buy solar, being taxed enough by the local government to pay for solar isn’t going to work either.
power company = nearly all are either co-ops (owned by the consumers) where you’d get the same problem with taxing, or private companies which are for-profit driven industries.
I’m wondering how many residential solar panels our current oil and gas subsidies could fund. Wishful thinking I suppose.
If you’re actually interested in affecting change, you’re going to need to do more than say “someone else should pay for it”. Even more if you’re saying “something I don’t support is getting money, and I want that money to go to the thing I support instead”. Unless you happen to be an authoritarian dictator where your will is law, you have to work within the system if you want change. So far I’m not seeing what you’re posting as a path that will become reality.
If I’ve mistaken your intentions and you just want to have someone else solve the big problem without addressing any of the smaller problems that creates, then I supposed your work is done. Carry on.
Its not just his opinion: its pretty well established that we need to develop this for our future
I agree we need to develop it. What is unrealistic is saying “thing X should happen and someone else should pay for it exclusively”. That’s what will keep this a pipe dream instead of turning it into actual reality.