If you were driving through a residential area of Phoenix solar panels would not be a likely sight. Solar energy is a free and clean technology. Free in that you are getting energy from the sun. This energy is also renewable. Unfortunately, installing and maintaining panels is not cheap.

Many people expect deregulation to solve all of our energy problems. It will help many of our problems, but it will take time. Some of the short term hurdles deregulation faces are pretty substantial.