{"id":25798,"date":"2017-09-18T19:53:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T00:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25798"},"modified":"2017-09-18T19:53:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T00:53:26","slug":"in-florida-you-cant-use-your-own-solar-panels-in-a-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=25798","title":{"rendered":"In Florida, You Can\u2019t Use Your Own Solar Panels in a Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Florida, You Can\u2019t Use Your Own Solar Panels in a Crisis<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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When it comes to the U.S. economy, the \u201ccon\u201d part offers the best description of the current relationship between business, government and the preyed upon consumer. The way things work in early 21st century America is large businesses bribe politicians in a variety of ways at both the local and federal level, and the end result is laws that are designed to increase corporate profits at the expense of the wellbeing and freedom of the American public. Politicians end up with financial war chests to run their next campaign, while bureaucrats see a lucrative opportunity to swing through the ever spinning revolving door should they play ball with lobbyists and their patrons. Yes, there\u2019s always some degree of corruption within any society of humans, but there are peaks and valleys in such cycles. I\u2019d argue we are somewhere in the peak corruption phase.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s article focuses on one of the most highly regulated industries in the country, electric utilities. It\u2019s one of the most boring businesses in America. I know this because it fell under the umbrella of my responsibilities during my last Wall Street job, and I could barely read a utilities research report without immediately falling asleep. Nevertheless, as you\u2019ll see in today\u2019s piece, the industry still finds a way to generate large profits while simultaneously harming the people its supposed to service.<\/p>\n

When I think about solar panels, its not just the use of a renewable resource I find appealing, but also the potential to take energy generation into your own hands; something that can prove quite useful in a major global crisis, or even something more minor like Hurricane Irma\u2019s impact on Florida. The latter could\u2019ve be a lifesaver for some Florida residents recently, but a local electric utility has done everything in its power to deny its customers such freedom.<\/p>\n

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In Florida, You Can\u2019t Use Your Own Solar Panels in a Crisis When it comes to the U.S. economy, the \u201ccon\u201d part offers the best description of the current relationship between business, government and the preyed upon consumer. The way things work in early 21st century America is large businesses bribe politicians in a variety […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[940,4285,15149,1859],"class_list":["post-25798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-liberty","tag-florida","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-mike-krieger","tag-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25799,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25798\/revisions\/25799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}