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The Solar Energy Market Has Bottomed

What is a subsidy? The definition changes every 5 seconds to accommodate the blogger. Look "subsidy" up on WIKI- encyclopedia. There are 20 definitions and they all end [citation needed].
Most dictionaries say that a subsidy is a grant,i.e., not money, given to a private person or a corporation for the benefit of the public.
A home mortgage is a subsidy. We itemize costs to own a home. We spend big bucks to reduce our Income Tax by a little, but many others wouldn't have a job without this subsidy.
A mall is given a subsidy by a small town within a megacity. They lower the property tax to the mall, counting on getting rich on sales tax.
States promised oil field developers a subsidy on royalties for them to develop oil fields in an area (Gulf of Mexico) that they would lose money paying the set royalties. In this way the states are getting billions in royalties rather than nothing.
The trucking industry gets an indirect subsidy. Railroads pay 100% of the upkeep of their roads. Truckers pay less than 50%. The majority of truckers are individuals or small companies. This provides a lot of jobs.
Politicians don't give something for nothing. They want to be reelected again and again. Lobbying and moneys-donated tactics don't work anymore than TV ads work on you and me.
If it might impede them from being elected, they won't do it.

Toyota Far Surpasses GM When It Comes to EV

US automakers build the vehicles that 99% of us want. There have been good american cars that get better than 30 mpg every year for the last 70 years. The few people that actually want vehicles with good mileage are, like you, prejudiced against US automakers so why would US automakers make vehicles people won't buy?
The only way the government can force higher mileage (without destroying the US economy) is to raise the cost of gasoline to at least $4/gal. This would also go a long way to curing the healthcare "crisis" 1700 people's lifes were saved and billions of dollars were saved with $4 gasoline..


On May 21 08:40 AM Freya wrote:

> Great Article.
>
> US automakers should have learned from the 70's, instead they reverted
> to "same old, same old".
>

Peak Oil and Some Alternative Energy Investments

Oil company profit margins are always low.
They are making money because they have
been forced to become extremely efficient.

Peak Oil and Some Alternative Energy Investments

ExxonMobil has developed a new liner that makes lithium batteries safer and lighter. They are making 500 hp cars using 1000 3.7volt
batteries. It costs $100,000 dollars.
Just make me a 80 hp car that costs $20,000, I'll be happy.