13-10-2013, 03:00 AM
One of the recurring sponsors of televised San Francisco GIANTS baseball games aired in the S.F Bay
Area is a solar power company whose official spokesperson also happens to be a well-known (trusted?)
local baseball announcer. In his taped advertisements this fellow genially boasts that he hasn't
paid a utility bill in years and assures viewers that they, too, can "say goodbye" to skyrocketing
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) bills by "going solar" themselves.
Now, it may well be that PG&E (which is the sole purveyor of natural gas and electricity in the Bay Area) has capitulated to this region's habitual innovative streak and therefore abandoned any attempts to thwart the advancement of solar power in the Bay Area, but take a look at what [the late] Gore Vidal (-a "rich-and-famous" man) endured when he benevolently took his Hollywood Hills home off L.A.'s overburdened grid:
![[Image: GVsolar_zpsa2179386.jpg]](http://i1315.photobucket.com/albums/t597/5000CSmith/GVsolar_zpsa2179386.jpg)
The rest of the story is here:
https://www.truthdig.com/report/item/200...lar_power/
Area is a solar power company whose official spokesperson also happens to be a well-known (trusted?)
local baseball announcer. In his taped advertisements this fellow genially boasts that he hasn't
paid a utility bill in years and assures viewers that they, too, can "say goodbye" to skyrocketing
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) bills by "going solar" themselves.
Now, it may well be that PG&E (which is the sole purveyor of natural gas and electricity in the Bay Area) has capitulated to this region's habitual innovative streak and therefore abandoned any attempts to thwart the advancement of solar power in the Bay Area, but take a look at what [the late] Gore Vidal (-a "rich-and-famous" man) endured when he benevolently took his Hollywood Hills home off L.A.'s overburdened grid:
The rest of the story is here:
https://www.truthdig.com/report/item/200...lar_power/