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Those damn tariffs... it's a shame that solar companies don't create jobs in the US instead of complaining about tariffs on their products produced with slave labor overseas.

Even washers and dryers are not immune. LG would rather produce their product overseas instead of saving or creating jobs here in the states.

Hopefully the Trump tax breaks will bring these manufacturing jobs back to the states.
Bob R/CA What in heaven are you talking about? Trump slashed programs designed to foster green energy development in the US - a sector growing at a tremendously faster rate than the fossil fuel sector - so you can't pretend the tariffs are an effort to bolster that growth sector in the US. It appears to be yet another anti-modernity reflex by our dinosaur p...See More
Jan 26, 2018
Tim Finnegan What am I talking about? Well, solar companies are upset about the Trump tariffs ... why not put their plants here in the United States? The reason ... it's cheaper to hire workers overseas and pay slave wages.

Why has Elon Musk not bought the small parcel in Utah (I think that's where it was) that could power the US on solar? Where is the...See More
Jan 28, 2018
T.E.C. - Iowa The tariffs on solar are more likely there because the fossil fuel industry wants them there. So much for capitalism fostering innovation - it doesn't! Our basically unregulated capitalism has reached the point where it does little to nothing to foster a better future. More and more we are running a "rentier" economy that tends to look a lot like t...See More
Jan 29, 2018


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