LOL, Saltheart - look at your cell phone bill closely and see how they nickle and dime you to death! I HATE VERIZON.
My Dad looked into getting solar about 30 yrs back and he was told because of our area, it was too cloudy for it to be cost effective?!
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May be the technology has chanced, things are more efficient and so forth, but the Feds cut the grant $$ that USE to pay for a percentage of it AND it takes a long time to re-cooperate the upfront costs.
Even if I cut down all my trees (just ONE left on the back - all the others have died on their own or the storms have knocked them over in the past 20+ yrs), I have my neighbors trees that block the path of the sun!
If I was in a spot that was open and sunny, I would be all over solar energy OR even wind energy.
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