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Originally Posted by 12thMan

Basically, the debate comes to one thing. How can we achieve energy independence and what is our blue print to get there. If you notice, the politicians on TV outraged and screaming the loudest either live in coal or oil producing states or have ties to the oil lobby. If we can get past the right and left politics for a moment, this really comes down to entrenched special interests and lobbyists fighting to maintain the status quo to keep their share of the pie. They have no interest in seeing the Solyndra's of the world take off and shape our energy future.

So what you're saying is due to conflicts of interest with our elected politicians, new and inventive companies are having a hard time getting off the ground. Well that sucks, because as long as those "conflicts of interest" exist, we're gonna be stuck in the same situation we're in today. Aka there's no hope.