the reason msn put solar as a growing and upcoming industry is because they think Obama and his EPA thugs will successfully be able to shut down the oil and natural gas boom that is going on right now in this country because its all on private land. We have developed a new type of drilling called hydraulic fracturing which will allow us to overtake the middle east in oil production and be close to number 1 in natural gas production very shortly.  We have enough oil and nat/ gas within our borders to supply our country for 200 years and this is just proven reserves, as we explore more we will find even more.  My prediction is Obama will shut this down, we will be driving smart cars and bikes, I hope my prediction is wrong

I called Sears appliance repair, as our refrigerator had died. It was a Kitchen Aid, which is Whirlpool & Maytag as well.

My previous refrigerator was a Kenmore, which is also Whirlpool. My Kenmore refrigerator's compressor died @ 5 years, which is when the warranty expired. I paid to replace the compressor, which was about $400-$500 at the time.

Planned obsolesce, if there was a 10 year warranty on the compressor, it would've died right after 10 years.

So after it died 5 years later, I decided to get a Kitchen Aid. I was hoping for something which would give me more life than 5 years. Then I find out it is just Whirlpool with a different logo. So 5 years later the Kitchen Aid refrigerator dies.

My wife calls Sears repair & they tell us then cannot come out for a week. With kids I cannot wait a week for repair, so the next day we went out & purchased a new refrigerator.

I want to buy American, but when companies like Whirlpool decide to build stuff which only last 5 years I will buy products from foreign companies. This time we purchased Samsung, as I am hoping to get longer service life than I have gotten from Whirlpool. This planned obsolesce was what American car manufacturers did, look what it did for Toyota & Honda today. The American manufacturer's greed is killing American jobs, by alienating the American public from purchasing their products.

If you build quality, then people like myself will remain loyal to a brand. I will never purchase another Whirlpool, Kenmore, Kitchen Aid or Maytag product again. I am looking for value by having products which last, then when they break you don't mind repairing them.