There are a GOOD NUMBER of FReepers who have SWALLOWED THE RENEWABLE ENERGY KOOL-AID.
ZERO KOOL AID here. If you have the available space and means to power your home with a solar array, more power to you. So to speak. I have a YUGE open chunk on the south side of the house but the cost of installing and converting would no doubt exceed my remaining years to recover the investment. National dependence on “natural means” is, to me, not doable ‘currently’. So to speak.
They swallowed it in pursuit of an even greater fantasy “energy independence”. Which was replaced by “energy security”. Which was just one component of the “Buy American” bamboozle. The US are “Yankee Traders” and Trump has the right big ginormous idea. Energy Domination.
We do not need a US Federal Government energy or trade policy. We need freedom. In the end a free economy fueled by free US entrepreneurs will thrash all foreign business schemes.