<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Let's make this a joint project: put solar panels on our houses. Who is interested?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div>If you follow the link, there is a simple form based on your address and utility bill to estimate how much money it would cost to put solar panels on your house and what the long term impact on your utility bills would be. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Wouldn't it be cool if a bunch of us did this together?</div><div><br></div><div>You go around Champaign-Urbana, you hardly see solar panels. You go to other places - Los Angeles, Vermont, Germany - you see them all over. Why not here?</div><div><br></div><div>If a few of us led the way, others would follow. If we acted together, we could pool information. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">If you own a house, the economics are straightforward. We are all throwing money in the trash by not putting solar panels on our houses. The investment pays for itself. Then you have super-cheap electricity. </div><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Elijah Zarlin, CREDO Action</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:act@credoaction.com" target="_blank">act@credoaction.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 8:41 AM<br>Subject: Solar savings might not last forever.<br>To: Robert Naiman <<a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a>><br><br><br><u></u>
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<strong>Don’t get left out in the cold. Go solar before the solar tax credit expires.</strong>
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<p>Dear Robert,</p>
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<p>Right now, solar is growing fast and helping more and more families save money on their electric bill – but that might not last forever.</p>
<p><strong>The 30 percent federal tax credit that has allowed so many homes to go solar is scheduled to expire at the end of next year</strong><sup>1</sup> – and the Republican Congress is virtually guaranteed not to renew it.</p>
<p>That means the price of going solar could rise dramatically. And if you don’t lock in solar savings now, you could get left out in the cold - continuing to rely on dirty energy from your utility that just gets more and more expensive.</p>
<p><a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/9198?t=2&akid=14758.1021725.fJLMOJ" target="_blank"><strong>Now is the time to go solar. Click here to see your solar potential, and if you could save money with a solar system for as low as $0-down from Geostellar.</strong></a></p>
<p>CREDO has partnered with Geostellar, the nation’s first and largest solar marketplace, to help you save money by going solar. Geostellar will connect you with local solar installers, state and federal incentives, and great financing options to go solar for as little as $0-down. Additionally, Geostellar guarantees the lowest price, solar within 90 days, and lifetime monitoring, maintenance and support.
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<p>We know the climate-denying Republican Congress<sup>2</sup> – elected by huge sums of money from oil, gas and coal giants – only wants to obstruct any progress that allows Americans to break free from the grip of our status quo system of utility-supplied dirty fossil fuel electricity. And thanks to heavily gerrymandered Congressional district boundaries, Congress is unlikely to change hands for years.</p>
<p>When you go solar, you supply your own clean, renewable energy from the sun. And with a home solar system for as low as $0-down from Geostellar, you lock in a low fixed solar rate for decades. <strong>A recent study found that in 46 of the 50 largest cities in the U.S. a $0-down home solar system was a better investment than the stock market!<sup>3</sup></strong></p>
<p>But the cost to go solar could rise dramatically at the end of next year if Republicans slam the door on your opportunity to lock in solar savings.</p>
<p><strong>See if you can lock in your solar savings, before the solar tax credit expires. Click the link below to see your solar potential:</strong></p>
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<p>Thanks for all you do.</p>
<p>Elijah Zarlin, Campaign Manager<br>
<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/109?t=5&akid=14758.1021725.fJLMOJ" target="_blank">CREDO Action from Working Assets</a></p>
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1. Pamela Cargill, "<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/9066?t=7&akid=14758.1021725.fJLMOJ" target="_blank">Will Solar Plunge Off the Tax Credit Cliff?</a>" EnergyWorld.com, February 20, 2015.<br>
2. "<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/9053?t=8&akid=14758.1021725.fJLMOJ" target="_blank">Sen. Jim Inhofe embarrasses the GOP and the U.S.</a>," Washington Post, March 1, 2015. <br>
3. Tom Kenworthy, "<a href="http://act.credoaction.com/go/9054?t=9&akid=14758.1021725.fJLMOJ" target="_blank">Report: Forget Stocks, Invest In Solar Panels</a>," Think Progress, January 13, 2015.</p>
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