Reblogged from one of best satirists around.
An unknown man packs nearly $0,000.00 worth of sunlight into his trunk, as solar markets hold steady.
Carrying on a trend that started 4.6 billion years ago, and is expected to endure for at least another 20 billion fiscal quarters, the energy blasting towards Earth in an unbroken stream from the sun continued to demand exactly $000,000,000.00 per barrel on the open markets today.
“Look, the bad news is no one made a killing on this energy source we like to call ‘daylight,’ this week,” said solar market expert Max Helios. “There have been no new nearby suns discovered for a very long time, and the energy is difficult to monopolize, falling as it does in an even pattern of life-giving brilliance on the upturned face of our planet.”
“But the good news is no one is having to pay anyone else to take their solar energy. And never…
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Thanks, Roy. Love the Out and Abouter.
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Not only is it satire, it’s true! Back in my “youth,” when I worked as an editor for a small publishing company, I was asked to be the editor of a small newsletter called “SOLAR POWER.” Lots of optimistic promising articles about the power of, and affordability of, solar power with solar panels that would change the world. This was the late 1970s, and suddenly the oil and gas lobbyists got scared and solar power was not heard of again. Now, my 30-something son is a financier and investment counselor – in SOLAR ENERGY. May it burn brightly into strong reality now.
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Yes, I now recall some excitement decades ago but, as you say, little really happened. Hopefully its day is close at hand, the time may be right.
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