Even if that was the only option, which it is not; a tank of gas is used up and must be replenished constantly, a solar panel is like a free gas station that lasts a really long time. Like a really long time. Gas? Use it and there is no gas no more, and you have to buy more gas, again and again and again.

So if china one day stops selling solar panels, we’ll have decades of time to figure out what to do, not days or weeks.