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To: Triffin who wrote (675089)3/14/2005 10:28:27 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Respond to of 769670
 
[GE and others are all over it]

"They wouldn't be without the incentives .. The real cost of renewables .."

Maybe, maybe not.

But since ALL our big energy industries receive HUGE subsidies (in the tax codes, special taxpayer-financed insurance provisions, R&D paid by the taxpayers, and just generally pork all around) it's hard to state exactly *what technologies* business would choose to finance in a truly free market, not distorted by all the government pork.