Will taxes halt Calif.'s solar thermal ambitions?

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Total nonsense

If solar was the future (and I'm not saying that it's not) then it should be able to survive without subsidy. Subsidies are just tools used by politicians to try to pick winners. And if history has demonstrated anything, it's that politicians are hardly the best arbiters of what is "best" for the "future". If they were, we'd all today be running our cars off of fuel extraced from shale and preparing ourselves for the upcoming ice age.

And come on; Do you really want George Bush or Nancy Pelosi telling you what is and isn't an "authorized demand"?

The day will come when the cost of oil makes solar, or perhaps some other technology we're not even aware of yet cost effective, and nobody, especially the evil greedy oil companies, will be able to stop its deployment. In the meantime, the only greed I'm worried about is the greed of those who wish to manipulate the tax code to their benefit (and my detriment) and the greed of politicians who wish to grant themselves more power (frequently via the tax code) to their belefit (and my detriment).

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