Look, I understand that enviros are generally rich people who feel so badly about their wealth that they want to make sure that others avoid the same fate, but this must be one really big house we’re talking about here (about two-and-a-half minutes in). Like, John Edwards-big.

And that is by no means inconsistent with your typical green activist. But we are told by Greenpeace’s “solutions director” that spending $37,000 to make one’s home run on solar power would pay for itself in six years.

Let’s forget about the time-value of money here for a moment — just so as to stay on the same page of “green economics” — and ask about the circumstances requiring someone to pay about $515 per month in home energy costs.

In Virginia, a rather large home for a family of four, including young children who require lots and lots of hot water and electricity to run a washer and dryer and dishwasher for hours on end pretty much daily, who eat in most nights, and who otherwise do not shy away from creature comforts, entails a monthly bill that is less than half of that for both gas and electric.

The background behind the Greenpeace rep in this clip suggests that the speaker is in California and, giving her the benefit of the doubt, let’s suppose that her anecdotal friend also lives in that state, known for its government interference that causes energy prices to “necessarily skyrocket” to the global warmists’ initial Target Level. It nonetheless would seem that Greenpeace’s problem solver has failed to convince her energy-intensive friend to walk the greens’ talk (outside of checking into the price of solar panels).

Someone please tell me how I’ve got this wrong. Do we have here yet another case of the greens’ fuzzy math? They have a habit of selling their agenda by promising that it will make us all rich — despite having quite the opposite effect wherever it has been tried.

But perhaps this Greenpeace woman is on the level. Still, if Californians pay twice as much as I do for home heating and cooling — in a mild climate requiring a fraction of such activities as are required throughout most of the country — and other home energy needs, then it only reaffirms that the only way to make wind and solar remotely economic is to skyrocket the cost of their competitors.