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In reply to the discussion: If Solar was subsidized like Fossil fuels [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Those rigs out in the ocean? Fracking?
When oil was first brought to market from Pennsylvania fields it was just oozing up out of the ground. Took a while to get the technology we have today that permits extracting it from the arctic or from the ocean floor.
Solar is still in its infancy. We need to subsidize it. Here in Southern California, solar energy is a no-brainer.
We would have it, but our electricity bill is far to small to make it pay. If it were subsidized as it should be, we would have it.
We don't have air conditioning. We have trees. That's of course another form of solar power in a kind of round about way. The sunshine makes the trees grow, and the trees shade our house. We are just lucky because if we did not have our trees we would need air conditioning.