Silence From DC. Since my proposal this week for the SPI organizers to revert $500k of profits to the ITC extension organizing effort, I have heard from many of you but nobody with the power of the purse. The message was delivered and heard but the response is in the mail (or not). Look, this is a one in a million chance but I am hoping that doing the right thing becomes reality.
Smart Energy. There is a lot of logic in pricing the cost of carbon in everything that we buy but that’s not the way our economy works. We subsidize the entire economic value chain so that consumers get whatever they want. So a carbon tax makes sense, though politicians are unlikely to go for it but it seems to be the topic that DC wants to debate so we don’t actually do anything tangible.
ITC Homework. What are you doing today to extend the ITC? Have you called your members’ office or visited the district office?
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Best, Yann