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The Erick Erickson Show

S11 EP150: Hour 3 - The “American Dream” Is Racist

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

People really don’t like solar panels and the NYT can’t handle that non-white Americans are defending the “American Dream”.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our 3.

0:13.7

Why, hello there. Welcome across America. It is Eric Erickson here in the Eric Erickson

0:18.8

show. The phone number, if you want to be on the show, is 877-973-7-425.

0:26.7

Got a lot of people.

0:28.4

I've been wading on the folds.

0:29.2

There's a lot of deep hatred in America, at least among my listeners, on solar panels.

0:36.6

But I have a listener who actually wants to defend solar panels

0:41.5

and I want to go to him next. Jacob, welcome to the Eric Erickson show. How are you?

0:46.7

I'm good, Eric. How are you? Good. All right. So there are a lot of people fired up about

0:52.6

solar panel talk. But my call screter says you will actually offer a lot of people fired up about solar panel talk but my call screeter says you will

0:55.9

actually offer a defense of solar panels well just sharing my experience um it very much is an

1:04.7

individual thing you know if you have trees in your yard which which way your house space is

1:10.8

to install the panels and all that.

1:12.8

But so my experience, the company we went with, there was no upfront cost.

1:21.0

We were able to completely finance the panels.

1:23.9

So I basically substituted my power bill for my solar bill.

1:28.9

We have the tax credit, at least for the next year or two.

1:34.3

Hopefully they re-up it at the end of 2023, I think.

1:40.6

And so, yeah, I still do have a power bill a little bit because we have a net metering system.

1:46.0

It's a give and take with the, with power grid.

1:48.6

And, you know, after after my, my payment term is over, I basically don't have a power bill anymore.

1:55.8

So, and then, of course, you can buy a battery and all that stuff.

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