This thread should be labeled "Exhibit A" on why the US isn't further down the road toward a modern energy grid made up of a variety of sources...

Solar panels have been around (and working) for decades yet how much of our total energy needs are being met by the sun??? Like way less than 1%...

The Republicans love blast Obama on Solyndra but when we look at the big picture??? Solyndra did everything right... The Chinese didn't... They put massive subsidies into their own solar panel industry and, like the 80s and the theft of out steel industry, we sat back and did nothing.... Why would the Chinese go out on a limb on solar panels??? Ain't rocket surgery...

What we have right now is a complete BIG OIL assault on renewables... Doesn't much matter which one... They hate them all... Ocean currents??? Communism, right... Wind??? More communism... Solar??? Even worse communism...

That is reality, folks...

You want more BIG OIL and CLEAN COAL then just stick your head back into them tar sands...

B~