Question by ………………: What has the Department of Energy accomplished so far?
People want to continue with research in green technology, but Jimmy Carter tried that by creating the Department of Energy. What more can be done? Hasn’t this going on for over 3 decades? Should we leave for capitalism and the free market to do it’s magic instead or not?
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Answer by The Daily Elitist
How is allowing polluters to dump their costs onto society as a whole the “free market?” Sounds a lot like “theft” to me, and I have no problem with the government preventing theft and the destruction of private and public property. In fact, 99% or so would say that is one of the fundamental jobs of government.
Moreover, your insinuation that fossil fuel firms are not subsidized is false, bordering on absurd. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME THE MILITARY MOVED A NIMITZ-CLASS SUPERCARRIER BATTLE GROUP TO DEFEND SUPPLIES OF WIND TURBINES, EH?! I’m thinking it was… Oh yeah… NEVER.
Or do the hundreds of billions of dollars in direct and indirect subsidies the government lavishes on the oil industry every year not count because you say so?
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