RE: Trumps 30% tariff on imported solar panels
January 29, 2018 at 7:47 am
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2018 at 7:53 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Sure, but greed being a reality, we might want to point it in a better direction, lol. Tilting at windmills, really. The only way we get a cleaner, greener future is if there's a boatload of money in it. While that may be a sad commentary on the nature of man and market, it is the reality.
The trick is to get customers informed. So that they realize that the cheapest panels are..well..cheap ass knock-offs. That's why step one for the bad actors was to subvert the industry groups that reliably tracked solar and turn them into their own marketing wings.
In the long run, shitty solar is still an upgrade, and if some country wants to sell us a cheap product and incur the damage that it's manufacture causes on their own backyards, so be it. It's at cross-purpose to why people buy solar (but not to why industry would go solar..they'll always go for the econo-panels). To my mind, this is just a failure of branding, and thus a -failure- of greed. The ad campaign is baked in. Don't buy those shitty panels, they're not what you think they are. Buy ours instead. They're more expensive, and it's worth it.
Yay, boatloads of money for errybody!
The trick is to get customers informed. So that they realize that the cheapest panels are..well..cheap ass knock-offs. That's why step one for the bad actors was to subvert the industry groups that reliably tracked solar and turn them into their own marketing wings.
In the long run, shitty solar is still an upgrade, and if some country wants to sell us a cheap product and incur the damage that it's manufacture causes on their own backyards, so be it. It's at cross-purpose to why people buy solar (but not to why industry would go solar..they'll always go for the econo-panels). To my mind, this is just a failure of branding, and thus a -failure- of greed. The ad campaign is baked in. Don't buy those shitty panels, they're not what you think they are. Buy ours instead. They're more expensive, and it's worth it.
Yay, boatloads of money for errybody!
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