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[E3 wise]

I am guessing there will be some people who will think that mandating solar for new construction is not fair.  My feeling is to draw a comparison to any other revolutionary technologies that have come into residential construction.  I mean at one time people had outhouses, once the technology became practical cities mandated indoor bathrooms.  The same thing happened with electricity standards and so on.  Read this article and tell us what you think.

http://www.greentech...o-Require-Solar

[Phil]

Being a libertarian I don't have a problem with requiring people to be more self sufficient!  But oh the horrors, the guy is a, GASP, republican!  Will republicans get credit for this one or just more trash talk?

[Shortpoet-GTD]

Phil, on 01 April 2013 - 02:32 PM, said:

Being a libertarian I don't have a problem with requiring people to be more self sufficient!  But oh the horrors, the guy is a, GASP, republican!  Will republicans get credit for this one or just more trash talk?

There are good republicans out there on the local levels across the country, although they are as scarce
as chicken teeth in Washington.

But back to topic-
Requiring developers to do this is a good thing.
They can spread the cost out over the whole development,
so it's not the burden on one individual homeowner.

On the down side-it's more urban sprawl because of overpopulation.

[E3 wise]

You are so right, we find that the cost of renewables at construction is more cost effective then retrofit of existing buildings. On the subject of republicans and democrats, guys I find local leaders much more open to public feelings, I think it really is the money issue in politics.  I would be hard pressed to find a mayor or city commissioner getting hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars from fossil fuel companies for reelection, unlike many state or federal politicians.  I also think that local leaders are more in tune with the economic benefit that local generative power brings to their tax base.

As an independent I just don't care what party a person is if they are willing to do what's best for the people they represent, wish I could say that about state and federal leaders.
Jeff