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> Make it mandatory for owners of rented buildings, and mandatory for businesses. So my grandmother, who gets a large part of her retirement income from a coup
by djrogers 5y ago
> Make it mandatory for owners of rented buildings, and mandatory for businesses.
So my grandmother, who gets a large part of her retirement income from a couple of $5-600/mo rental homes she owns will have to shell out 10-20k each to keep doing that? On what planet does that make sense?
- dheera 5y agoSubsidize it 100% for her and low income rental owners then. For the high income armchair landlords, impose a solar tax and fund solar installations for everyone else. I want to think about how to make stuff possible, not excuses about why we can't do it. This kind of excuse-making attitude is why the US is falling behind in climate efforts.
- Scoundreller 5y agoShouldn't need to subsidize it. The idea is that your $x PV install will generate enough income to make it a worthwhile investment.
- sokoloff 5y agoIf that’s the case, the mandate is equally unnecessary.
- imtringued 5y agoIt obviously is. People will install solar panels in bad locations (for solar) because of the mandate.
- sokoloff 5y agoIs that outcome a good thing in some way that I’m not seeing? Because to me, that just seems wasteful. (For society I mean; it’s obvious how it’s a good thing for makers and installers of PV systems.)
- baremetal 5y agothey have to use the whole climate change narrative as a reason to push renewables, because it doesn't make economic sense.
- dheera 5y agoWell yes, because scientifically speaking we're fucked if we don't do something, and the current iteration of the economy incentivizes short-sighted thinking, not long-term survival and avoidance of unrest due to a resource crisis.
- imtringued 5y agoIt makes economic sense. Damage caused by CO2 pollution doesn't make economic sense. The anti climate change narrative also fuels macroeconomic problems as the willingness for the US to invest into its own nation decreases for no logical reason or gain. There is nothing virtuous about being dependent on fossil fuel imports.