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Originally Posted by Jim Bullis
Ok, so you saly, "Go to heck, Jim, I want to show off to my girlfriend with a flashy Tesla," and you reserve the power for yourself to use it in that Tesla that you go out and buy. The accounting, as I see it, is that the utility will have to use more coal as a consequence of your decision. And this ignores the fact that you will also have to cough up around $120K for the battery bucket, muscle car callled a Tesla Roadster beyond what you would have paid for the Prius.
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Suppose I instead buy a Lotus Elise for $45K and use the leftover $75K to buy solar panels and sell the power to my utility. Then what?