On December 25, 2017 at 15:38, Fins said...
Of course the company that installed them was mystified. They made money selling and installing solar panels. Of course they would say they worked wonderfully. If they worked so well, why did people stop buying them when the tax credit went away? Because they didn’t make sense economically.
Same reason people in Arizona stopped buying them when the tax credit went away. That doesn't mean that Solar doesn't make sense economically. It means that the average home owner can't afford thousands of dollars to upgrade their homes.
Walmart pricing makes sense if you think in terms of what you have in your pocket right now. If you consider everything though...shopping at Walmart is like slitting your own throat.
What part of of where I explained the Iran Embassy siege wasn’t in the US don’t you understand? And those weren’t terrorists, they would be classified as revolutionaries. At that time, we had never seen Arab radicals attack anywhere outside of the Middle East.
Americans at a US Embassy were held hostage in Iran. By your logic Benghazi was no big deal and ISIS a revolutionary force?
It’s easy to pass judgement when using hindsight. Especially when you ignore all the other facts of history at the time.
4th paragraph down.
[Link: presidency.ucsb.edu]"We import now about half of all the oil we use from overseas. And this dependence on foreign sources of oil is of great concern to all of us. "
Maybe the rest of the world had their heads in the sand but Carter knew what was happening and what would come if we didn't shift away from Fossil Fuels...in 1979. Maybe if the oil companies donated a few million to his campaign he would have loosened up and played ball.
