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I didn't see a link to the actual poll results, but the text of the article says the skeptics say "they believe that advocates for wind and solar energy exaggerate how cheap the sources have become". I mean, that seems like a pretty easy thing to answer yes to, even if you're not a skeptic.

I have solar panels and they save me 100 a month on electricity plus I sell solar back to the grid. One of the most obvious and easy investments I've made

A diverse energy system promotes lower prices, energy independence and is, therefore, a matter of national security. *cough cough* Americans love moralizing, all-or-nothing culture wars but maybe the pain in their pockets will persuade them to make more practical decisions.

If you want to trigger your common sense against the ones who are against or downplay electric vehicles, think about Amazon's delivery vehicles you see everywhere, they wouldn't have gone all out on them if the bottom line weren't good.

In a sane world, doesn’t seem like it would be that difficult to incentivize solar on every roof. Especially areas like Colorado where it’s sunny every day! Incentives around public utilities seem so broken. But imagine a world where they were also incentivized to have solar on every roof, etc!

I'm not clever enough for the phrasing, but the fact that flat screen TVs got cheap for the EXACT same reason as solar panels could be a good point. It's the same physics!

Moved to a new to us home in FL this year. Added solar. Final $ numbers won't be in until we see how much surplus credit we build up over the winter but it clearly is fully justified financially w/o any other considerations. When I tell people they just don't believe me.

I'm pretty sure that in California people are looking at their utility bills and all the stories about solar + storage &c, and drawing unfortunate conclusions. But if(!) Haircut signs the plug-in solar bill that might help.

I think a potent argument for Green Energy that is often overlooked is the fact that it is intrinsically *distributed energy generation*. There is no 'Strait of Photons' that can be blocked by a bad actor.

As my political ideology developed I simply could not square that one political party didn’t want clean air, water and land. It’s unethical to humanity. To top it off, clean energy was always destined to eventually be cheaper. Anti-environmentalism is greedy, dirty, and evil.

Yes, so the only solution is for the left to start to build their own "giant media machine", whatever form that may take. We either start to get serious in the info wars game or we're toast. It's a bandwidth / reach problem and right now it's a howitzer to a popgun.

In Australia half of homes have solar already, many have batteries too, electric cars sales are quickly increasing (~25% of the market already).

The only difficulty will be Trumpist blanket prohibitions on solar and wind, but I'm not sure future presidents will pursue these with such vigor. And even if the US turns out to be a global climate laggard, other countries are seeing sense.

Or if they go to town meetings

Venezuela gets 3c to the dollar in the recent deal. There are good, technical reasons why that might not matter, just trying to get across that good economics of a solution CAN be undermined . It has happened before. So fully relying on: Economics will fix this for us may be the wrong bet .

It's easy to get the impression that clean energy is an expensive luxury when you get offers in the mail to switch a clean energy source and it's significantly more expensive than the ordinary energy mix. At least it is in Massachusetts.

They. Aren’t. Trying. To. Win.

The doom machine...I thought it was sunny in Seattle this time of year. Top and bottom messaging is resonating via Talerico. Same playbook --> "the souless billionaires want prop up aging coal and its expensive electricity while solar, wind & batteries provide cheap electricity.

You're in the Seattle area, right? Given that renewables are now reasonably cheap, any idea why PSE is 1) sending out tables of their energy mix from 2024 2) asking for giant rate hikes so they can comply with the CCA commitments? Is there more nuance than "big bad corporation"?

But just read multiple times today on BS, that over 90% of all new elec. gen. in 2026 was renewables, despite Wright and Burglum et al. Somewhere, the message is getting through. As for the Dems, when they clean house at the mid-terms send Prez. Piggy a shit burger: e.g., big tax breaks for solar.

I have recently switched from bottled gas to air source heat pump. It works as well, is much cheaper and better for the environment, but it needs an app. I do not like apps. I want to buy something and own it outright and control it with a knob on the wall.

It'll happen anyway, and it already is. There are more EVs on the road every day, and dealer lots are full of EVs, in spite of Krasnov killing the $7500 rebate. When people hear that it costs 5 cents a mile to drive, they perk right up.

I think the part of that article that mentioned that Rs had not really convinced the public that clean energy was to blame for energy costs was pretty revealing.

Alternative Energy also has a 30-year head start on Clean Energy.

I get that this is true at the utility level, but it hasn’t gotten cheaper at the level of individual homeowners pricing rooftop solar, which is how most people will experience the cost of clean energy

www.americanprogress.org/article/5-hi...

The entire US has a huge problem- the scammers have poisoned the well so badly that it costs a lot to get a new customer, so it's expensive and has slow payback... I know Australia's the best case but it's SEVEN times as expensive here as there.

If MT politics is indicative, people absolutely don't care about (or even notice) the actual price of energy, so this stays about who said what. We could just make the measurement (Judith Gap wind $33/MWh, Colstrip coal $62, Dave Gates gas $125), but real prices aren't of interest.

I will start using this phrase, do my part!

At least three people in my orbit have gone EV downstream of me going electric. Even my deeply conservative dad is like, "wow, this thing is nice!". My hope is that there's an organic grassroots spread of what is clearly superior, especially in our days of $6 diesel.

I live in Brazil, there's so many wind and solar energy now that the national grid operator must do all sorts of manoeuvers for it not to collapse on holidays and sundays when the usage drops. Everybody is now excited about the business opportunities in battery storage.

Can we start a media machine for “cheap energy is good, and expensive energy is dumb”?