There was a reference to mtg believing this in the comments section of a post on the mtg thread. I couldn't find that she said it, but ...
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-town ... un-2015-12
"A US town has rejected plans for solar panels amid fears they would 'suck up all the energy from the sun'"
And wouldn't you know it
It's in North Carolina
"Members of the public in Woodland, North Carolina, expressed their fear and mistrust at the proposal to allow Strata Solar Company to build a solar farm off Highway 258.
During the Woodland Town Council meeting, one local man, Bobby Mann, said solar farms would suck up all the energy from the sun and businesses would not go to Woodland"
"The council voted three to one against rezoning the land and later voted for a moratorium on future solar farms."
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”