Tariffs On Solar Panel Imports Announced
But implementation date not firm...but it will be soon. Please. No political comments which do not do a damned bit of good. 25% price increase on a thousand dollars of panels is not chickenfeed....
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I used to buy Snap On and Mac tools because they were in fact superior to anything made overseas. The strength and durability made a joke out of Japanese and Chinese hand tools. When HARBOR FREIGHT SALVAGE had a picture of a tugboat on the cover of a newsprint ad, socket sets cost three dollars and were worth half that. Almost 40-years ago.
Price a Snap On 3/8" flex ratchet today ($150.00). Is it 10x superior to Harbor Freight's best flex ratchet? Maybe the feel in my hands has badly degraded.
My business, PATECO, had to offer compelling service for the price charged for testing batteries. My big challenge was Southern California Edison. By working 16 hours a day and automating testing using data acquisition boards, home made equipment and rebuilding alternators while tests were being conducted I made good money.
But today's execs, even small business, want to sit on their ass and charge Monte Carlo prices. Most of them get away with it. Thank god I used my remaining income to rathole it in a bus and equipment.
That Hippie of BFL13's cloudy skies, could grow superior tasting beautiful carrots and justify organic high prices. On the other hand I have long lost the financial ability to pay five dollars for a cup of coffee that to me needs to be hot watered down 50% in order to be drinkable.
Americans have utterly lost perspective. Especially the 25-40 year olds. A thousand dollars for a play screen telephone? Sixty grand for a sedan? The dividing line is education. If I lost 40 years off my age, I probably could earn 90 - 130 thousand a year working my way to senior engineer.
What are we in, some kind of a dystopian movie where class divisions mean luxury or the slums? This is a bubble and it isn't a sustainable bubble. Too many years of business schooling allow me to see the great stretching between the two opposites. In itself not a worry. Projecting it causes the worry -- the stretch is accelerating.
It well may be it is impossible for the USA to regain the ability to mine coal, make steel, and affordable automobiles. Hell, Westinghouse seems to be the only company with the ability to manufacture large electric grid transformers. Can we build ships? No. We couldn't even keep Transamerica De La Valle. But Germany has Pielstik. What happened?
Gimmee gimmee. Mine Not yours! If I can't make a squatzillion dollars on my investment then screw it. It's really scary.
All I want are some solar panels. Geezo.
Price a Snap On 3/8" flex ratchet today ($150.00). Is it 10x superior to Harbor Freight's best flex ratchet? Maybe the feel in my hands has badly degraded.
My business, PATECO, had to offer compelling service for the price charged for testing batteries. My big challenge was Southern California Edison. By working 16 hours a day and automating testing using data acquisition boards, home made equipment and rebuilding alternators while tests were being conducted I made good money.
But today's execs, even small business, want to sit on their ass and charge Monte Carlo prices. Most of them get away with it. Thank god I used my remaining income to rathole it in a bus and equipment.
That Hippie of BFL13's cloudy skies, could grow superior tasting beautiful carrots and justify organic high prices. On the other hand I have long lost the financial ability to pay five dollars for a cup of coffee that to me needs to be hot watered down 50% in order to be drinkable.
Americans have utterly lost perspective. Especially the 25-40 year olds. A thousand dollars for a play screen telephone? Sixty grand for a sedan? The dividing line is education. If I lost 40 years off my age, I probably could earn 90 - 130 thousand a year working my way to senior engineer.
What are we in, some kind of a dystopian movie where class divisions mean luxury or the slums? This is a bubble and it isn't a sustainable bubble. Too many years of business schooling allow me to see the great stretching between the two opposites. In itself not a worry. Projecting it causes the worry -- the stretch is accelerating.
It well may be it is impossible for the USA to regain the ability to mine coal, make steel, and affordable automobiles. Hell, Westinghouse seems to be the only company with the ability to manufacture large electric grid transformers. Can we build ships? No. We couldn't even keep Transamerica De La Valle. But Germany has Pielstik. What happened?
Gimmee gimmee. Mine Not yours! If I can't make a squatzillion dollars on my investment then screw it. It's really scary.
All I want are some solar panels. Geezo.
