Gore is such an idiot... He's a politician and I believe was a lawyer, not an engineer, scientist or even a businessman, and has no understanding of the state of the available technology. At today's energy prices for fossil fuels, alternative energy is viable and the market is responding to address this business opportunity. The government getting involved, making bad decisions, focusing attention on companies or technologies that are not competative is the worst thing that can happen to alternative energy. In addition, government funding of private companies breeds bad behavior within the company, they focus on getting the next taxpayer dollar and not on making a better, cheaper product. I worked for a company that got government welfare...a good competative company with a viable technology was nearly taken under by some of the behavior it drove.
Give it a little time and let private industry respond, good technologies and well managed companies will thrive and offer solutions, while poor ones will fail and go under...without wasting taxpayer dollars on a massive scale. Gore is the typical liberal pol, wanting the government to provide solutions, even though they have never proven capable of doing so in the past.
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