| Kasz216 said: Also... Green Energy Subsidies don't increase technological advances in green energy. If anything they provide a huge incentive to NOT research.
Now you want a real incentive to create green energy products? Pass a bill saying you plan to turn the US Military into using 15% Renewable energies and just repalce the same spending your doing on the military anyway. Nice net neutral way to kill two birds with one stone. Companies would be KILLING themselves researching for that kind of contract. |
And this is one area where having some government spending, and government programs, actually leads to benefits for society. You have a large enough government program, that demands certain things, and then industries build around them, and do research into that area, and society gets the benefits from research. Aerospace and military, riding off the Cold War, ended up producing research that benefitted society. The Internet, GPS, and so on, are the result of spending in this area. The benefits of the research are not what was the purpose, but is a byproduct. One thing that is absurd about what Obama said about the Internet, was the government did it to benefit businesses. No, the government didn't do it to benefit business. The government did it for its own purposes, and businesses did benefit.
