Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Higher Fees for Electric and Hybrid Cars and Discouraging Net-Metering Rates for Residential Solar Roofs

Thanks to Governor Snyder and some other Republican lawmakers Michigan will soon be the joke of this nation that finally starts to wake up to reality. Instead of increasing incentives for people to move towards more sustainability in face of undeniable man-made global warming, they are planning to punish people to do the right thing. It is almost unbelievable and follows a very crooked logic to increase registration fees for cars that use less fuel like electric and hybrid cars. In all reality, people who own cars that are less efficient than 45 miles per gallon should be penalized for polluting our environment more than necessary by paying higher taxes and fees - not the other way around. This almost unbelievable and unethical stupidity follows the same lines as a proposal to allow utility companies to buy electricity from net-metering owners of rooftop solar panels at wholesale rate but sell them the energy back at retail rate. To even come up with such an absurd double-standard is mind-bugling. It is like - wait a minute where am I - in the dark middle-ages?

Update: I reached out to several electric car and hybrid car groups but nobody seems to care to object this INSANE, MAD and BACKWARDS ruling on cars that should be paying less!
For the solar panels, the proposal is not yet signed into law - there is a petition, which you all can sign to show our lawmakers that we will not take this false signal and discouragement to do the right thing. You can find the petition here:

https://www.change.org/p/michigan-state-house-michigan-state-senate-michigan-governor-michigan-stop-the-attack-on-rooftop-solar

1 comment:

  1. It seems like our governor is establishing a very dangerous precedent by allowing such non-progressive thinking and actions.

    Supposedly, the electric companies have conspired with the governor, and this; in the name of capitalistic profits for the companies involved. After all the governor is a very wealthy man, and perhpaps owns stock in the electric companies. A win win situation for the governor and big electric.

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