01-20-2014, 02:37 PM
Like it or not, the only reason why solar is affordable is because of Chinese panels / competition with Chinese panels. Some short-sighted politicians have tried to demonize Chinese panels while simultaneously throwing billions of dollars into USA companies who went bankrupt and also by setting up economic roadblocks to flooding the USA with cheap imported solar power in a misguided attempt to "create jobs" in this country, but unfortunately they didn't understand that very few jobs are created by making solar panels, they are created by installing and servicing them, and their policies not only cost a lot of USA jobs and threw billions of dollars into the toilet, but continued our dependence on fossil fuels. You can create energy by importing oil or by importing solar panels. Yes, both can be acquired domestically but this is a global economy. Looks like our policy makers slept through their high school economics classes.