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[ShazzieB]

42. Yes, "we" do have a huge incentive to convert our homes and businesses to sustainable energy sources.

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But so many of us are powerless to do anything about that. For example, we live in a large apartment complex. Even though we tenants pay our own utility bills, we have no choice regarding where those commodities come from. These buildings will have solar panels installed on their roofs WHEN AND IF the company that owns the complex decides to make it happen. Since we're paying our own energy bills, they have no financial incentive to spend money on solar panels that could save US a lot of money, but they do have an incentive to keep raising our rent to the point where Mr. B and I can no longer afford to live here.

Meanwhile the state is offering incentives to homeowners if they convert to solar energy, and more and more people seem to be taking advantage of that, which is great. I see a lot of roofs with solar panels on them when I drive around rown, and I'm alway happy to see them, but it's frustrating to be shut to be shut out from those benefits while my rent amd utility bills continue to climb. It's just one more way corporations and the billionaires who control them exercise power over the less wealthy in the endless pursuit of increasing their profits.

Sorry for the rant. It turns out that the issue of converting to sustainable energy sources is more of a sore point for me than I realized until I started typing this post!