Liberal Forum

skews13 » 04 May 2014 11:25 am » wrote:
I'm with you man. One of the groups you can thank for it is the real estate lobby. another are home owners associations, not to mention mortgage lenders, and insurance companies. Which as a small business owner how the hell anyone on this board can side with any of them. But, if the materials you use to build the panels are listed, you can assemble them yourself and sell them. If you are an inventor and have a patent, you can submit an application yourself, with a sample to UL, and if approved, can sell the product to suppliers for distribution. If it's affordable, and a quality product, electrical contractors who install PV as part of their business could make you very rich, very fast. It sounds like you have plan. Run with it.

Let us recap: The panels have 200 bucks worth of materials and a day's labor. They sell for 14 thousand dollars.

I can certainly see a soft spot between 400 bucks and 14,000 bucks - but I have no plan whatsoever to go after it. I was not born yesterday. Underwriters Laboratory, as I said before, is a Wall Street gate keeper protecting those profits. There are millions of handy Americans with access to this information. The math is the math. The politics are the politics. The law is the law.

Wall Street is Wall Street. Capitalism is capitalism. Free enterprise is free enterprise. I have explained how this works. There is no home for me or any other free enterpriser, between the 400 and the 14 thousand. That's a chimera.