Mark Ruffalo is practicing “energy independence” by installing solar panels at one of his houses in New York using taxpayer money. According to Ruffalo, the $9,003.08 needed from him for the project was no big deal. Well, probably not given the $15,000 plus contribution from taxpayers to subsidize an uneconomical project.

A recent interview highlighted how Mark Ruffalo recently installed $20,000 to $25,000 worth of solar panels in his backyard to harvest the sun’s energy and soothe his environmental conscious. Its worth noting that according the report, taxpayers contributed more than half the money (everything above the $9,003.08 he paid) for the project. So Ruffalo, whose net worth is reported to exceed $10 million, took at least $10,000 from New York taxpayers to put in a system he certainly could have paid for himself. Instead, he used other people’s money to finance the project while he actively seeks to block natural gas development that will provide others with the resources he already has.

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