GoodGuy

You can be 100% assured that if anybody wants to talk to you about "the costs of solar power" then it is a rep of the Neandertalers-Industry in full smokescreen operation mode.

These discussions are a great example for how propaganda works.

It does not make sense to calculate the "costs" of freedom, independence and the health of your family.

Also the real costs of unresolved nuclear waste problems, huge wars for securing oil supply and the contamination of our ground water by primitive fracking techniques are... titanic.

We need more young people in the US to take over the general political and economic discussion. Old and greedy neandertalers are destroying the living environment of young people, not ok, must change.

Homo sapiens, sapiens (!), take over please...

Here is a very effective german platform for not only contacting, but also making the answers to questions visible:

the site - http://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/ the code - https://github.com/parliamentwatch/parliamentwatch

the site is in german, but you might guess the content with a little help from an online translator. It is very popular and linked to from the biggest german online media. It might be an indicator for it's success that several conservative politicians tried to fight this site with all kinds of tricks, but they still did not succeed :)

Unfortunately the code is drupal, it certainly would be much better to convert this to some more flexible framework like pyramid or django, but it works.

It might be a much better alternative to make questions to congressmen publicly visible than just sending stuff into spam-folders of people that do not have interest at all in being contacted by "the people".