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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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