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Originally Posted by SR71
Forbes gets it right!
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Studies by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and by the University of California, Berkeley both confirm that these higher prices are almost exclusively related to the paperwork it takes to “officially” install a standard rooftop system in the U.S. That’s right, government red tape -‐ local, state and federal.
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Naturally I looked at the graphic before reading your quote, because a picture is worth 750 words even after federal, state and local taxes. And it didn't say red tape to me, it said free market gouging.
OK, the larger absolute declared profit could still be the same relative profit, but the vastly larger "labor" cost and the infinitely larger "supply chain" cost are somebody creaming off money.
The "permitting" chunk and the sales tax are red tape, sure. That's at most $1500 of the $10000 difference.
"Overhead" is meaningless unless we know that it's government overhead not companies' so-called overhead. And wtf is "customer acq"? Customer acquisition is sales, isn't it? Another bucket to hide profits in.