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Revving Up High-Octane Hypocrisy
Punishing
homeowners for
installing solar
panels
— whoopsie daisy — suddenly a
new competitorto your old-line prod
uct pops up, and more and more of
your customers are switching to the
alternative.
That’s the conundrum: You’re
being out-com peted. W hat
else can you do besides try to
by J im H ightower
compete better?
Hypothetical conun
Well, if you’re the reigning
drums can provide valu
princes of anti-government ex
able learning experi
tremism, you find that some
ences for students of
thing else.
corporate management and ethics.
This is no hypothetical situa
C onsider this one: Suppose tion. I t’s a real one faced by the
you’re a corporate chieftain who’s Koch brothers, the fossil-fueled
a free-enterprise fundamentalist, duo. They feel threatened by the
despising government regulation, steady increase in the num ber o f
taxation, and intervention in the middle-class families installing so
purity of the holy marketplace. But lar panels on the roofs o f their
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own homes.
Not only is this free, non-pollut
ing sun power slashing families’
utility bills, but families can also
make money from this investment in
climate solutions.
Today’s efficient solar cells can
produce more electricity than a home
needs, and 43 states allow these
rooftop energy producers to sell
their excess production back to the
grid. It’s free enterprise at its most
free-and-enterprising best.
Naturally, the Kochs and the util
ity monopolies hate this trend.
That’s why these old-power be
hemoths are tossing their libertar
ian purity overboard and sending
their lobbyists across country: to
demand that state governments in-
tervene in the marketplace to stop
these pesky rooftop competitors
from, uh, competing in the energy
marketplace.
T heir hypocrisy d o esn ’t stop
there. They also want states to tax
so lar-p o w ered hom eow ners to
punish them for becom ing inno
v ativ e en erg y p ro d u cers w ith
som e independence from their
local utilities.
It sure isn’t the American way.
But it is a page from the corporate
playbook. As the comedian Lily
Tomlin says, “No matter how cyni
cal you get, it’s almost impossible to
keep up.”
OtherW ords colum nist Jim
Hightower is a radio commentator,
writer, and public speaker.
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