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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cogito who wrote (78619)	7/31/2006 11:07:11 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 81568

Using your approach, the serious R & D efforts would begin only after higher taxes had pushed the situation to a crisis point. Thus, it would take a lot longer than a plan that involves a government sponsored initiative to accelerate the R & D. I'm not against government research. Final development and deployment isn't going to be done with government funds, or even because of government incentives, if it doesn't make basic economic sense. Most alternatives, don't make economic sense unless conventional energy source prices are higher. Modest government incentives won't change that. Major government incentives might cause some of these alternatives to become profitable for the corporation doing them but that still doesn't mean they will make economic sense. If you allocate investment and production according to political aims rather than real market demand you run in to the same problems endemic to all socialist societies. I was pointing that support for the idea is pretty much a no brainer. Support for massive government mandates and distortions in the energy market is more of a brainless idea than it is a no-brainer. If Bush can't entirely oppose it, that has everything to do with politics and next to nothing to do with economic reality. relying mainly on fossil fuels to power our nation is unsustainable and foolish. It is most likely unsustainable in the very long run, but doing anything else in the short run is extremely foolish.