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hunter

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5. There are no real hurdles to installing solar where I live.
Thu Apr 16, 2026, 12:25 PM
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About a third of the homes in my neighborhood have it, the schools and hospitals have it, many of the big box stores have it, and the nearby supermarket has it shading their parking lot. ( Parking lot solar is very nice on hot sunny days. Everyone can park in the shade. )

The only problem I have with that is that it raises the overall cost of electricity for people who can't install solar because they don't own the buildings they live in. In effect residential solar becomes a regressive tax on electricity. Lower income people end up subsidizing the solar installations of affluent people who like to brag about their electric meters running backwards.

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