Solar Power Scam

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Nicholas Weeks
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Solar Power Scam

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Supposedly these mobile solar generators supply much needed emergency power. This specific operation turned out to also be a Ponzi scheme!

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Malcolm
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Re: Solar Power Scam

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Nicholas Weeks wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2020 3:31 pm Supposedly these mobile solar generators supply much needed emergency power. This specific operation turned out to also be a Ponzi scheme!

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/to ... t-criminal
Well, this is nothing like the corporate socialism the US oil industry benefits from to the tune of 4.6 billion a year. Talk about a scam. And when we talk about indirect subsidies to all fossile fuel, this amount rises to $649 billion, more than the 2015 Pentagon budget.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... rt-833035/

This means that every family (assuming two parents, two kids) in the US is shouldering is shouldering nearly eight thousand dollars a year in hidden costs our government conceals in fuel production subsidies. Talk about scams. Those folks in Cali are lightweights, petty thieves by comparison.
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Re: Solar Power Scam

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Malcolm wrote: Sun Jan 26, 2020 3:57 pm

Well, this is nothing like the corporate socialism the US oil industry benefits from to the tune of 4.6 billion a year. Talk about a scam. And when we talk about indirect subsidies to all fossile fuel, this amount rises to $649 billion, more than the 2015 Pentagon budget.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... rt-833035/

This means that every family (assuming two parents, two kids) in the US is shouldering is shouldering nearly eight thousand dollars a year in hidden costs our government conceals in fuel production subsidies. Talk about scams. Those folks in Cali are lightweights, petty thieves by comparison.
Yes, it is quite sad, really. And this because the candidates receive huge campaign contributions from these sources.
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