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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (10949)	7/9/2009 7:34:26 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

And btw, do you see private industry sending Astronauts to the moon? Guess what.. It's STILL NOT COMMERCIALLY VIABLE 40 years AFTER the Government "incubated" the moon shots. That's a bit more complex than an electric car, don't you think?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (10949)	7/9/2009 1:35:19 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 86355

First off, Elon Musk's space company has a contract to provide space launches to NASA after the shuttle is no longer used. Elon's company is not a government entity, but a private enterprise. So yes, immense progress has been made. Second, you are the one that doesn't get it when it comes to end user demand generation as an effective subsidy for incubating technology in the auto industry. It is absolutely vital. The auto industry is huge and the entire supply chain has to be converted to accommodate clean, efficient vehicles like NGs and EVs that don't use gas. That takes time. The government can help the industry make the leap through end user subsidies until economies of scale can be reached and the supply chain gets up and running. It's not just that you don't get it. I have the feeling you don't have the fundamental training in economics and real world business experience working with launches of new technology to understand how it works, much less to make a judgement call on how important government partnership is.