Austin to Buy Solar Cells From China vs. Austin Company!

I commented on this before, but the news just keeps getting worse.

Austin is going to spend $250,000,000 for a solar energy generation plant that will take up 300Acres of valuable real-estate. This will make enough electricity for 5,000 homes. That would be a cost of $5,000 per home, but it will be spread over the entire tax base of Austin. Sure, they want people to volunteer to overpay for electricity, but if not enough suckers sign up, there's going to be some compulsion going on.

It's not that you could put a nuclear power plant on that same 300 acres and power 5 million homes.

It's not that the amount of energy they make will NEVER amount to the energy required to produce the photovoltaics.

It's not that you could sell that land and make a nuclear plant somewhere else

It's not even that the electricity is ridiculously expensive.

No, it's this: THIS YEAR a new company is starting up IN AUSTIN to produce solar cells.

AND AUSTIN IS BUYING THE PHOTOVOLTAICS FROM CHINA INSTEAD OF HERE!

I swear, if I were an Austin resident (won't be, ever, due to stupidity in that city) instead of a Pflugerville sleeper, I would be running for Mayor. Heck, I would have run for Mayor of Austin already. Then again, I would have to run against Leslie, but one need not take him too seriously.