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To: skinowski who wrote (14358)	3/11/2010 10:24:01 AM
From: HPilot	Respond to of 42652

Or extracting hydrogen from hydro-carbons, and efficient productive uses for the carbon.

To: skinowski who wrote (14358)	3/11/2010 11:19:34 AM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 42652

Sure and the Internet may never have come to the marketplace had the US government not invented and incubated it with its deep pockets to overcome the barriers to entry. But they did. They brought it to market, created rules to allow for it's growth with incentives like no Internet taxation for a period of time. They created open telecom rules through the FCC, which set the stage for competition to flourish for the Internet. Another example is VOIP, which may have never seen the light of day if the FCC had not protected them from the traditional phone companies' attempt to squash the technology. Renewable energy is in that infant stage and it needs to be incubated. All new tech is not as profitable as old tech, but given that fossil fuels are finite and wind and sun are limitless, and nuclear energy is almost limitless, and natural gas is abundant, I'd say absolutely our government should step in and incubate these technologies to pave the way for them to take a larger share from coal and oil. Hell, if we just focused on nuclear power and natural gas for electricity and to power our transportation sector, we'd solve so many problems as for it to be a no brainer. No oil dependence on our worst enemies. No foreign policy driven by oil. No oil wars needing to be fought. And if you believe in being good stewards of our environment, then much less pollution. Also, it would lower our trade deficit, since oil is one of the biggest contributors to it, which means our economy would run leaner and be more profitable and thus more competitive. For more debate on this subject, we should probably take it to the Politics of Energy thread. Read the last 10 posts there, I go into much more detail on the benefits of oil independence. Subject 57143