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T i m

On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 16:24:07 +0000, (Roger Hayter)
wrote:

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

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Whose money is the government using to pay us?

In teh end money spent = someone's time bought: the question is could
that person have been doing something more useful and productive than
digging holes and filling them in again.

Ultimately cost benefitr analysis shows that many many jobs would be
best completely abolished and the people who do them put on the dole.
Even if their standards of living didn't suffer, the roads would be less
crowded...

Follow that logic and we should probably not have started invading the
Middle East and Asia.

Yes, there are loads of 'other things' we could discuss, but we aren't
atm. ;-)

The point being that it is a bit mean to pick on
the particular inept piece of governance involved in FIT payments for
special moral opprobrium.

Other than that was 1) what was being discussed and 2) no one *had* to
take it up? I'm sure there must be a way to generate electricity and
simply get paid for what you generate, and that it?

No, the *reason* the likes of harry took it up was simply to earn the
money from it (and that's the big issue, when *we* are paying him).

But I realise I am intruding on someone
else's longstanding argument.

Not 'someone's' Roger, 'many peoples'. I bet there are even people out
there who have solar PV and are getting paid the FIT and have no idea
who is actually paying it and some ... who may even feel sufficiently
ashamed to then give the payments away or come off the system?

I never used to refuse mortgage interest relief either. Let alone
winter heating allowance.

No, although many have passed the latter onto charity .... but even
those aren't the same as installing a solar PV system and doing so
just to get in before the initial FIT reduction, simply to earn
(more) money from it.

Did you have to go out of your way to get those things, or did they
just happen? Did either thing give you an index linked and guaranteed
rate for 20 years?

Did you get other 'uninvolved people to pay for it based on some bogus
'it's better for all of us' plan?

Even giving someone who regularly lives and drives in one of our big
and polluted cities a grant against the price of an electric car makes
*some* sense as it reduces kerbside emissions ... but *only* on those
grounds (as any other 'eco' credentials are also bs and I've had a
Plug-In EV for around 30 years).

Cheers, T i m