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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:black'>Even stranger is that is not who they told me was buying them out, it was another inverter manufacturer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:black'>Big in the RV / Coach market. Seems like it was Dimensions or something like that. Unless they were just flipped?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:black'>Every company with stockholders will become “tax dodgers”, at least till we get the crippling taxes lowered to a reasonable rate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:black'>Even Burger King is moving, and it will continue till none are left.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:black'>Bob Ellison<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-bounces@lists.re-wrenches.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>frenergy<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, September 07, 2014 10:46 AM<br><b>To:</b> RE-wrenches<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [RE-wrenches] Magnum Energy sold to tax dodger<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Bill,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> Interesting because at InterSolar in SF this June, they were still bragging about being made in the USA. I guess you'd want to right up until: "Another one bites the dust" (there's a song isn't there?) It's getting terribly lonely out there for a US made offgrid inverter.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Bill<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Feather River Solar Electric<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>----- Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E4E4E4'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:bill@berkssolar.com" title="bill@berkssolar.com">Bill Hennessy</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org" title="re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org">RE-wrenches</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sent:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Sunday, September 07, 2014 6:47 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> [RE-wrenches] Magnum Energy sold to tax dodger<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div id=yiv8950954955><div><div><div id=yiv8950954955><div id="yiv8950954955yui_3_16_0_1_1409965182404_15895"><div id="yiv8950954955yui_3_16_0_1_1409965182404_15894"><div id="yiv8950954955yui_3_16_0_7_1409965182404_13"><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>hey wrenches, I suppose it's old news to you West Coasters, but saw yesterday that Magnum inverters has been sold for $60 million to a Mitt Romney conglomerate that shifted to the Netherlands to avoid paying US taxes. The new owner, Sensata, touts its "integrity" and comes with a rep of moving jobs to China.<br><br id="yiv8950954955yui_3_16_0_1_1409965182404_15951"><br id="yiv8950954955yui_3_16_0_1_1409965182404_15950"><br id="yiv8950954955yui_3_16_0_1_1409965182404_15949"><a href="http://www.secinfo.com/d1d2W1.n1v.14.htm#1stPage" target="_blank" id="yiv8950954955yui_3_16_0_1_1409965182404_15912">SEC Info - Sensata Technologies Holding N.V. - 10-Q - For 6/30/14 - R22</a><br><br id="yiv8950954955yui_3_16_0_1_1409965182404_15905"><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:3.75pt;margin-bottom:3.75pt' id="yiv8950954955enhancrCard_1"><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=450 style='width:337.5pt;border-collapse:collapse'><tr style='height:.75pt'><td colspan=7 style='background:#E5E5E5;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;height:.75pt'></td></tr><tr style='height:4.5pt' id="yiv8950954955yui_3_16_0_1_1409965182404_16180"><td width=1 rowspan=5 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