California Now Has More Than 150,000 Solar Roofs

[RobertEarl]

4. Big Power Executive is Depressed

He sits in his office reviewing the latest numbers. Coal deliveries are down 10% and next year deliveries will be down another 10%. Each year less and less.

Eventually, he ponders, the coal burners will only be needed at night, and there is very little electricity used at night, so his business is not growing, it is dieing.

His friends at other corps look at him sadly for they know the fellow and his business is a dinosaur, soon enough to be buried in time.

Those damn hippies, he mutters, they have ruined me. First they cut back on their consumption and then pushed for solar power. He thinks of the millions he wasted trying to fight solar but vows he'd do it again. The money was easy come, easy go, so spending on lies and lobbying was worth it, he still thinks.

93 million miles away sits his biggest competition. And yet, even now it reaches into the corners of his office lighting it up so he can see, but all he sees is his company going down the tubes. Damn the sun, he wails. As it burns on and on, really, too cheap to meter.