>So they are trying to stem the tide of the rich leaving by making them continue to bear the cost of subsidizing the poor. No, they're trying to prevent compet

>So they are trying to stem the tide of the rich leaving by making them continue to bear the cost of subsidizing the poor. No, they're trying to prevent competition. They run power plants too, and they'd rather you bought electricity from them rather than sold it to them. That's why none of the power companies are advocating just removing the implicit environmental subsidy and allowing power to be sold back to them at wholesale rate. They just want solar panels gone, period.