Fighting 'Solar Farm' Installation

[Fuddyduddy1952]

You know, what's so odd to me is the world's top polluter, China...double the US, probably more...is making all this garbage we buy just to stop pollution. They in turn are building up their military, buying our land (385,000 agricultural acres), buying our buinesses like Starwood Hotels, Smithfield Foods, Ingram Micro, General Electric appliances, Terex Corp. (heavy machinery), Legendary Entertainment, Motorola, AMC Entertainment, TikToc, General Motors, Spotify, SnapChat, Hilton, the world's largest bank Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. China owns 145 of the Fortune 500 companies.
So Americans are buying EVs and solar panels to get away from petroleum while enriching the planets largest polluter.
Does any of this make sense?
As usual...crickets...

 

[MapleLeafFarmer]

Floating solar panel farms:

I read today about FLOATING SOLAR PANEL FARMS.
Very popular in lots of places just not around here. They float panels on top of water reservoirs and similar.
Benefits include not using up valuable land and minimizes evaporation to boot.
Never heard of this before and thought it is a great idea just slow catching on here.

Hunan China

Netherlands

India

 

[Hay Dude]

You know, what's so odd to me is the world's top polluter, China...double the US, probably more...is making all this garbage we buy just to stop pollution. They in turn are building up their military, buying our land (385,000 agricultural acres), buying our buinesses like Starwood Hotels, Smithfield Foods, Ingram Micro, General Electric appliances, Terex Corp. (heavy machinery), Legendary Entertainment, Motorola, AMC Entertainment, TikToc, General Motors, Spotify, SnapChat, Hilton, the world's largest bank Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. China owns 145 of the Fortune 500 companies.
So Americans are buying EVs and solar panels to get away from petroleum while enriching the planets largest polluter.
Does any of this make sense?
As usual...crickets...

This!!

 

[MossRoad]

Boy, don't ever take a look at how much CO2 is put out per person per country.

The US smokes China by 2:1.

So complain all you want, but

USA! USA! USA! We win!

There are about 16 countries that put out more per person than US. China is way down the list at 42.

Pretty interesting list.

CO2 Emissions per Capita - Worldometer

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emissions per Capita for each Country in the world

www.worldometers.info

 

[bnold]

You know, what's so odd to me is the world's top polluter, China...double the US, probably more...is making all this garbage we buy just to stop pollution. They in turn are building up their military, buying our land (385,000 agricultural acres), buying our buinesses like Starwood Hotels, Smithfield Foods, Ingram Micro, General Electric appliances, Terex Corp. (heavy machinery), Legendary Entertainment, Motorola, AMC Entertainment, TikToc, General Motors, Spotify, SnapChat, Hilton, the world's largest bank Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. China owns 145 of the Fortune 500 companies.
So Americans are buying EVs and solar panels to get away from petroleum while enriching the planets largest polluter.
Does any of this make sense?
As usual...crickets...

Well Chinese corporations are allowed to buy property in the US. Not the other way around.

Chinese debt is less than US in value and as a percentage compared to GDP (but seems to be spiraling out of control faster than US if that is even possible).

Chinese may be growing their military, but they are still 30% of the expenditure on armed forces compared to US.

China will probably continue to buy US companies as long as the US companies are looking to cash out and it is legal to do so.

What’s the solution?

Hard for an ‘enriched free nation’ to compete with a socialist economy on the world scale. Their products in many cases are just as good as US at a better price point. The world will go to the best value. The world doesn’t care about the US union contracts, paternal leave, mass influx of illegal immigrants, or whatever else we decide to spend our money on (therefore raising prices on our products).

 

[Hay Dude]

Yeah I think we’re talking factories, industry, etc. Mr. China.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Boy, don't ever take a look at how much CO2 is put out per person per country.

The US smokes China by 2:1.

So complain all you want, but

USA! USA! USA! We win!

There are about 16 countries that put out more per person than US. China is way down the list at 42.

Pretty interesting list.

CO2 Emissions per Capita - Worldometer

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emissions per Capita for each Country in the world

www.worldometers.info

As usual...missing the point. No offense.
Uh...yes...WE need to change...not China!
Some people here may be moving there.
Of course, no need for that...they'll overtake us without firing a shot.

 

[bnold]

Yeah I think we’re talking factories, industry, etc. Mr. China.

What is this even in reference to?

 

[Hay Dude]

I’m asking how. What is the proposal?
I’d love to buy and support more US products. But I have limits to how far above and beyond market I’m willing to go.

A 30% import premium on the China panels wasn’t enough.

Too much made overseas. It’s costing us not only jobs, but generations of Americans are not learning the trades of manufacturing.
We can’t outsource such a high percentage of what we make.
It’s not just a matter of jobs, outsourcing and manufacturing. Its also a national security issue.

If the current administrations goals is to confiscate trillions from American taxpayers for “green“ energy while destroying the current energy sources, the least they could do is put plans in place to insure those trillions stay circulation HERE, not go to China, Europe or India.

Who wants millions of acres of American farmland covered in Chinese made solar panels or European made windmills, electrical systems and batteries? That’s an embarrassing disgrace

 

[ruffdog]

Boy, don't ever take a look at how much CO2 is put out per person per country.

The US smokes China by 2:1.

So complain all you want, but

USA! USA! USA! We win!

There are about 16 countries that put out more per person than US. China is way down the list at 42.

Pretty interesting list.

CO2 Emissions per Capita - Worldometer

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emissions per Capita for each Country in the world

www.worldometers.info

Yes, interesting.