Where is the five cents or less figure? Come back to us when it's at a seriously low (cheap) level, not when it's at a level even higher than anomalies and the farthest-from-general-models like Long Island's power rates. (If you want government involved in this, the offer something similar to BPA and similar hydropower rates, or _refrain_.)

That doesn't even start to address the lack of a replacement for liquid transportation (petroleum-based) fuels. Invent a battery yielding a range of 300-plus miles at 90+ mph with recharging time of well under twenty minutes or you don't have an electric vehicle replacement ready for people yet.

There's no need for people to be infatuated to a ridiculously silly extent with pee-cee contemporary versions of solar and wind that rad-lefties have dreamed of since the Sixties.

Actually if the plan was to turn the United States into Mexico they can declare victory. The United States’ income distribution became as skewed in favor of the wealthy as Mexico's this last year.

This is maybe less obvious but a large one, an inability of government to think big and plan for the future.

The Conservative Elites don't want the government to think big and plan for the future, they would rather have this country turn into an English speaking version of Guatemala than let any government (Federal, State or Local) invest in the future. In their opinion, it's better to rule a third world country than to be another member of the elites in a wealthy, democratically run country in which they would have to answer to their fellow citizens…

Offer the same here and you will have a bounty of solar power. Continue to agree to lie to each other about the need to develop and utilize renewable power and eventually we will pay someone else to provide our technology.

The prevailing economic and political philosophy in the US over the last 30 years has given us many deficits to pass on to our children, including the obvious monetary, infra-structure and educational ones. This is maybe less obvious but a large one, an inability of government to think big and plan for the future.