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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
Any costs they incur will be passed on to the consumer. And it ain't going to be cheap...
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And therein lies the fault of the plan. I am all for punishing big energy companies that refuse to change, but it needs to be done in such a way so they CANNOT pass the expense along to the consumers. The consumers want change. Consumers want clean energy. It isn't the consumers fault these people are still building dirty coal plants, when they could be building clean ones.
IMO they are going about it all wrong anyway. They are making it too fucking complicated. All they need to do, is subsidize companies that create clean energy plants (like solar or wind, etc.), and subsudize people solarizing their homes, or putting in personal wind mills, or whatever works in different areas, and then making energy companies buy back the excess energy at a fair rate. That would empower the people of this country, it would allow people who can't afford solar panels (or whatever) to have them, it wouldn't really need the cooperation of big energy, and everyone wins. Big energy gets clean power to sell back to customers, people who choose to participate will get a drastic reduction in energy costs, and people who create green energy and green energy jobs get start-up reduction in costs. It's a win-win. Of course big energy companies won't like it because it will end up cutting into their profits, but who cares. Maybe it would force them to change and get with the program.