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Originally Posted by shiraz9944
Robbie did't Las Vegas just recently become the first US city to officially be run completely on Solar energy? I'm pretty sure I read that on CNN not long ago. I wonder if that is why prices there are whacky.........they may want to keep a stranglehold on that method since now it's cheap for them and can keep charging you for it.
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No. The Las Vegas GOVERNMENT office buildings are the first in the country to run on RENEWABLE energy.
To try and put solar panels on your home in Nevada is a nightmare now. The govt. passed all kinds of laws to protect NV Energy (the power company) and make it hurt you in the wallet to put in solar panels on your own for your home.
NV Energy themselves are putting up huge solar arrays to SELL us power. And they complained to the govt. that homes with solar panels were "Unfairly" not paying "their share" of the new solar arrays for NV Energy.
It's pretty much a huge rip-off. And the govt. (as always) is hand-in-glove working to fuck the citizens over.
Here in Nevada...every home should be producing it's own power independently. Both solar AND wind (the wind here is unreal).
And the entire Mojave Desert should be a giant solar array. It would be enough to power the entire U.S.
Why isn't that reality? You would THINK that with "man-made" climate change being THE most important thing in the world...that Pres. Obama and the Democrat House and Senate would have made that a priority in his first 2 years of his administration in 2009 and 2010. They had TOTAL control.
But they didn't.
I guess we'll get another chance to see how "real" that is when the next Democrat President and full Dem control in the Senate and House takes place.
My prediction: They will do nothing again.