Another thought related to carbon capitalism: McCain's $300 million boy scout electric car battery badge is such a telling mockery of what American 'market-driven ingenuity' is supposed to be about it, I can't help but laugh at the sheer childishness and hypocrisy of it. The 'winning' patent technology would be so much more valuable to, say, the inventor, the inventor as entrepreneur, her investors, the new industry she's created, etc. than McCain's lame, anti-capitalism pandering prize it's flat out amusing. Isn't the 'invisible hand of the market' supposed to address this supply/demand, once-in-a-millennia business opportunity on its own? Guess not. This is a $300 million dollar acknowledgment of free market failure. Priceless.
Why not just give all 300 million American citizens $1,000,000 each to be used towards the purchase of a Tesla Roadster? Or to install solar panels on their home? Or to open a bike shop? Just send John a copy of your receipt(s). That's a guzillion times better plan for economic (and environmental) stimulus!
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