over the past few years solar energy has been it's been going down in price in
terms of getting a system set up for your home it's becoming more
cost-effective non-renewable
but sources of energy and it seems like a great thing to do for your home if you
can afford to set up
you'll save money on your energy bill every month to generate less carbon that
creates jobs locally and things like that
so it seems like a win-win but Alec is traveling around the country to convince
state legislatures that in fact
it is a horrible thing I know Alec as you probably remember is up
is funded in part by the Koch brothers now they have significant energy
interests
and what they're doing is they're trying to roll back state reforms to our
like produce a renewable energy mandate to encourage people to do solar energy
and things like that
answer specifically in Arizona what they did to solar energy users
is in Thane now currently if you have
a solar panels frequently will produce more energy at one time that you can use
and what they have a system called net metering
that allows you to sell back that energy over the grid
to power companies and you get credits for that your money for that
into alec is going in and they successfully lobbied for and got the
fine affectively on people doing net metering in Arizona
where now they will pay a fine of about five dollars a month extra
now it's a very small amount the solar energy in Arizona can
the companies consider that a win because Alec was a advocating for
a potential fine of up to a hundred dollars which would make it in no way
cost-effective versus traditional non-renewable sources of energy
and so they successfully lobbied for that not only five dollars there
but you know that they're gonna do this and other states and if you are a
potential a user of solar energy in the future
you should be worried about this because Koch brothers and their
I guess their affiliates are going around trying to make it impossible for
that to be cost effective in america
net now let me explain why how much the Koch brothers hate the free market
so first evolved but this active premarket idea to say that if you're
producing more energy
well you put back into the more you sell it in the market and you get some money
poured
and that's a good way in fact that weighed in some ways you're competing
with the huge utility companies as well AirPrint
creating this you free market where people have an incentive to go solar to
go green energy
that both helps environment puts money in their pocket it is a win all around
now who it's not a win for is with guys who run companies that are based on
fossil fuels
and who would that be alright
the Koch brothers okay so what they're doing is
the definition of crony capitalism where they go into the politicians that the
grease at the local level here in Arizona in the near term
throughout the country and say hey listen that all free market idea with
the solar panels
X nay on that okay instead kill my competition for me
behind them to the point of trying to put them out of business
because I hate the free market I don't want to compete with solar energy
I just want you to give me a every advantage so that my fossil fuel company
does better I guess is a somewhat sensible given the
who fact ok how Koch Industries made their money in the first place
by working for Joseph Stalin okay now and that's literally true
look it up okay their brother their father Fred Koch
made their original fortune working for stalling
political so guilty about it that he founded the judge helped to found the
John Birch Society when super right-wing all I a pic I've never really do
I hate those commies you give me all my money rate answer now
his sons have come full circle would like oil over terribly fed up
for the free market competition secretly though here's the money you're brought
your legal bribed
she go kill the solar companies so I can make more money
they don't believe in America they don't believe in capitalism all they believe
in
is total and other greed by any means necessary
so you're telling me that the Koch brothers their father
make their money by working with the communists and stalin
style but Barack Obama has been infected by his body met him for 10 minutes one
time
yeah if you are but with a drizzle my father
regarding the Koch brothers if you like a home and after working with stalin he
dreamed about working with mao
I so what is it somebody who's smarter and writes books weren't there was a
chris Hedges write a book about
no not say what the known that simply a bug you hope you have everyone knows it
like if you did any research into the Fred Coke that made his money that way
right
but need don't know the reason to come up is because it's impolite
so mainstream media think so what's very impolite to mention
how we cope brothers initially made their money great
and and not to be for the Koch brothers their dad it was an amp right
it's impolite to mention how so many lit
elite families in the country also had deals with the Germans during World War
Two
now before we went to war with them most little
mostly some a little after we went to war with them
am did Prescott Bush ok deals with the germans before the war
that's very impolite think that this creates awkward moments at the cocktail
party
about my final point I wanna make on this is about it's significant because
it might seem too many people
most if you do not have solar panels on your home and it might seem like well
not much money that they're being charged although it can go up in the
future
it's that myself to speaking for myself as a young fairly nerdy liberal
I look to the future and just assume that we're going to get to this this
land of great technology see movies like I Robot a minority report everything
is so advanced and when they don't say in those movies is that every one of
those advanced technologies
that had to replace an antiquated technology
the people who had a vested interest in those used their power established
position
to lobby for bills to stop his new technologies
to buy El patents as I forget the company but
there's a company just about ten years ago the ball and advanced design for
battery
could have power early electric cars they bought the patent and sat on it
never produced anything with it
like that that happens in so many different areas and they're trying to
stop us
from getting to that advance future that I away