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Shouldn't 0bama increase our tax benefits for solar panels so we can buy more Chinese products?

China is the world's biggest producer of solar panels

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Go ahead admit it...Carter was right ! He was right in seeking to raise the fleet auto mileage standard to 48 miles per gallon by 995. (Even U.S. automakers admitted at the time that they could easily achieve 30 mpg by 985.) Carter was right in exhorting Americans to turn down their thermostats, even if he did look nerdy in a cardigan while urging us to do so. He was right to encourage fuel conservation by proposing a 50-cents-per-gallon tax on gasoline and a fee on imported oil —- in effect, a floor for fuel prices. Invoking the pioneering spirit of the 960s moon mission, he was right to recommend a tax on windfall oil profits to finance a crash program to develop affordable synthetic fuels. Carter was correct, too, in setting a goal of obtaining 20 percent of our energy from solar power by the year 2000. The solar panels Carter put up on the Whitehouse were USA made. The solar
Or maybe he should increase tax benefits for domestic manufacturers of solar panels, so that they are actually manufactured here instead of in China? Oh, wait. He is. But I've seen questions in which you whine about tax cuts for renewable energy because you think renewable energy can't be profitable.
China is also the world leader in using solar panels. Most solar panels in the US are not from China. There are several companies here in the US that make solar panels, and many states do increase the tax rebate for buying local products. Most flat plate water heating panels installed in the USA are made in the USA. Wouldn't it be nice to get people to buy more sustainable energy products and increase manufacturing jobs in the US, while actually improving the air quality and reducing our dependence on foreign oil? Oh, and perhaps we could get the money by cutting the amount of taxpayer funds subsidizing the oil and coal industries?
America should be making the panels and imposing large tariffs on any country trying to import theirs here.

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