Quote:As a small government fiscal conservative I have to ask you, why must government do this if it's such a great and wonderful idea? Why isn't someone using these masterful new ideas to make a profit? And please don't say the oil companies are preventing it, that's silly. If wind/solar/hydro and all the other greenie pipe dreams are so much better than fossil fuels for energy (never mind the dozens of other essential uses of them) why haven't they superceded the FFs by now?


Because the one thing I do know is that if the only way for something to be done is for government to force or require it then it's not going to be a good thing.

I too am a fiscal conservative. Our government doesn't need to necessarily do it themselves. They just needs to make it a viable option instead of allowing energy lobbyists to squash it at every turn. Other countries are embracing these technologies and will be far ahead of us before we catch on that it is the way of the future.


If you don't think energy companies are trying to block this at every turn you are not paying attention. The evidence is overwhelming and decades old.

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