The government is needed for alternative energy. We can have 120 different companies reinventing the lightbulb, or we can put 120 companies together and get somewhere. The government must organize it.. Oil companies aren't going to put themselves out of buisness before they have to, and when they do it will take us down with them.

Think of it as the railway vs the freeway system.

Railway was very inefficient, government putting a company in charge and dumping cash into them... Money got absorbed by greedy people in the company and it turned out to be a big waste of cash, with the corporations in charge.

The freeway, the government hired out companies and organized it and it got done. The reason this worked out was because the government was invovled making sure tax dollars aren't getting pissed away. Some things are too big for private sectors to take care of themselves.. This is one of them.

It's amazing on D-day how we all got together.. The billions of dollars involved and all the different countries are kind of like 'private corporations of america'

We need the government to be the Eisenhower of alternative energy...


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