• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    has repeatedly referred to clean energy projects as a “scam”.

    On the one hand I fail to see how something that you pay for once and continue to get a return from is more of a scam than being perpetually reliant on a finite supply of fuel.

    Like… you make a wind farm, or a solar farm…and you have electricity for a looooong time with just some simple maintenance.

    But…I can see how he can get people to side with him on the “it’s a scam” part. There are a lot of scams out in the home solar market. That’s not a fault of the solar panels, though.

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      But…I can see how he can get people to side with him on the “it’s a scam” part. There are a lot of scams out in the home solar market. That’s not a fault of the solar panels, though.

      Whose fault is it, though?

      The answer is, it’s the fault of eroding consumer protection regulations and increasing government corruption, and Vance’s party is the one perpetrating it.

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        Yeah I was going to allude to that but got distracted. It’s entirely due to that.

        Whenever a consumer gets screwed, you can bet that a conservative profits from it.