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Owning class don't like free solutions. Simple enough.
I never understood why the owner class didn’t transition to renewable energy, especially solar.
If you corner that market you will make trillions, especially if you can push the fossil competitors out of the market. You already have the capital to fully research everything from materials science to construction/deployment techniques. You have the petroleum resources for manufacturing (of which some, at least these days, are still needed). And unless the sun stops shining you just take in money as long as you maintain the product, far cheaper and messier than the mass scale of oil refinement and fuel these days. It’s more infinite money than leveraging unrealized gains for rolling loans.
Why are they so obsessed with the current status quo? Too much work? Too much risk? Someday the oil will run out…
The way I've seen it is that Solar Panels of quality can last for 10 years. Electric cars also need less maintenance like oil changes, mufflers, etc. So, the thought of having a system where you don't need to re-purchase or even talk to someone that would "fix" the thing for the better part of a decade is untenable. The same reason most things are going subscription service, even if one is not needed. They need to be constantly rolling in money, or they don't feel whole.
Solar panels last way longer than 10 years. Usually they have a 25 years warranty on them that means that after 25 years they are still producing at least 80% as much power as they were producing when new!