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https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2024/08/how-avoid-getting-burned-solar-or-clean-energy-scams
Unfortunately, some of those things do happen.
The bigger scam is the massive negative externalities of petroleum consumption but that's an abstract concept and these people are simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know...