Quote Originally Posted by seattlesmoke247
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.
Your example is simply unrealistic. If these people, whom you believe are the "best" at organizing, are government bureaucrats, why are they working for 1000x's less, in a highly uncompetitive job market?

Quality managers exist in higher proportion, within the private sector. So much so that these "private managers" of industry hire "diplomats" on their behalf, to infiltrate Washington DC, on behalf of expanding consumption.

Think of it as the railway vs the freeway system.
Technological difference renders the comparison off base. Mass waves of immigrants are not needed to dig the trenches. Caterpillar is less of a long term costs, while providing greater production for both functions of time and money (which can be considered one in the same).

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.
Steam engines vs fuel cell/heavy diesel combustion:stoned: I could be wrong though....

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.
Do tell; were these people digging by hand? How about cranes? Where things lifted by a series of pulleys?

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'
That's a reach.

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


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The same government you cannot trust to do what is just, selective drug criminalization, should be the decider of everything?:wtf: If i am to agree, i would also have to agree that they keep drugs illegal because it if beneficial to me and my fellow country men/women.
GoldenBoy812 Reviewed by GoldenBoy812 on . We don't need the government to invest in alternative fuels. The Obama administration keeps mentioning how important it is for us to invest in alternative fuels, unfortunately, they aren't needed in this area. The reason our system works is the private sector works these things out on it's own. Do you honestly believe the automakers aren't aware we will run out of oil in the next 30 years or so? Do you honestly believe they will remain idle while they are run out of business? No, they will adapt. They will improve alternative fuel technology, because Rating: 5