No one says that. The financial reward for the person/company that creates a "green", abundant and economically viable energy source will drive the market. You can't force it. You can help it along, but you can't force it.
This company got $60 million in Stimulus and MA state money to develop solar energy. Two years later, it's basically done, and earlier this year, it laid off 800 people. http://www.bostonherald.com/business/technology/general/view.bg?articleid=1358998
It always amazes me how people on this board completely miss the point of what is being discussed. Nobody is against "green" technology; the point is that we are nowhere near being able to run our energy grid and transportation needs on "green" energy, and wasting tens of billions of taxpayers funds on it while at the same time funding oil recovery operations in Brazil is the stuff of fools. If you haven't noticed, we're in a prolonged period of unemployment, food prices are rising on an almost weekly basis, and we have pie-in-the-sky Obama saying that green energy is going to turn it all around. He's either delusional, ignorant, or flat-out lying about the present state of "green" energy not only in this country, but the world.
Apples to oranges. The internet/computer revolution only happened because it made people's lives easier / more convenient and it evolved with the technology. It wasn't a matter of having to convince people to take a less comfortable lifestyle in order to force inferior technology down their throats. If you want to use the analogy of the computer revolution, it would be like saying in the 1980's that everybody needs to have 4GB of ram and 3Ghz processors in a laptop form factor. Now, how much are you willing to pay for that?
I don't recall 4 Gb RAM and 3 GHz processors being considered "inferior technology" in the 1980s. barfo
A government-funded "green" recovery is simply not possible at this point. Drill now, drill often. http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Solyndra-Filing-a-Disaster-for-Obama-128816968.html
This Solyndra story may be worthy of its own thread soon. Apparently it is funded in large part by George Kaiser, who was a primary bundler for the Obama/Biden campaign in 2008. $535 million wasted in just over one year? Where did the money go? http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/obama-administration-solyndra/story?id=13640783&page=3
President Obama is still on the front page of the Solyndra website as of today. $535 million wasted in one year in a "no-bid" money grab to an Obama bundler. Hell, at least Halliburton provides a service that is proven over time. IMPEACH!!
