Powering Up With the Sun, House by House

ALL ACROSS THE FRUITED PLAIN, Americans are putting solar panels on their rooftops, getting their electricity directly from the sun, selling what's left over, if anything, back into the grid, saving the planet, and inspiring fear among the wealthy elite owners of the electric power companies and the semi-socialistic public power grid. Profits are down at the electric companies, and a scheme is being worked out to require everyone living indoors to pay a monthly charge for electricity, whether or not they generate their own power in the privacy of their own rooftops. We must, of course, ensure that our conversion to privately produced electricity endangers not our elite corporate masters; so let's keep paying them! And if the oil/fuel companies, and those at the top of them, remain billionaires while we ween ourselves away from fossil fuels, what of it? Who cares if the same people who have all the money now still have it after we convert to solar energy and save the planet, so long as we do the converting and saving? Hell, economic equality is important, but we can tackle that later...(we sure aint tackling it now)... We can have our cake, and we can consume it. We can suck enough fossil fuels out of the ground to satisfy our wealthy masters, and, having barely converted to solar in the nick of time to save the world, keep everyone happy. We can all become the producers of our own electricity, and we can all help to maintain the public power grid, which, like the railroad system, will not turn out to be obsolete. Germany is leading the way in solar energy, powering a substantial part of their country with it. Now, the rest of the world will follow suit. Solar energy is the ultimate answer, isn't it?