Originally Posted by spdrun

Well, time to slash the throats of the oil cartels like the disgusting swine that they are. Tax them into bankruptcy and starvation. Fund a hundred thousand Solyndras, and see which new technologies stick. Then print money if needed to deploy those technologies.

Time for the US to become a guiding light in the fight against global warming, rather than the laughingstock of the civilized world. As far as hurting our competitiveness against China, we could send them back to the Stone Age tomorrow by placing a 200% tariff on their products. And should. If the US is developing in other ways, our economy can survive without selling the average prole an iAndroidpad geewgaw every year.