> Maybe the company should foot the bill for a security guard instead of asking the taxpayers to subsidize their business.
replyWhy would a company spend their own money when they can have someone else spend their money instead?
This implies that vandals only attack one business, instead of being a public nuisance or menace to everyone.
reply>solar farm in an undeveloped area
replyLooks like the vandals will have to move along to somewhere else to score some copper.
Ah yes, breaking news: vandals have cars and commit more than one kind of crime.
reply24/7 coverage 365 days a year at 20$/h = 175,200$/year.
reply>Junkies will find ways through the fencing at night
replyYour math implies polar winter. Solar would be a bad investment.
You can’t assume behavior is unchanged when you change the situation.
replyIn remote areas if you only guard at night they will go in the day.
Your takeaway is that every solar installation, regardless of size, now has an $80k/year minimum cost associated with its' mere existence because California can't get its' house in order?
replyCitation needed that this problem is unique to California.
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