Quote Originally Posted by xdeus View Post
That's kind of a tricky one in a capitalist society. Right now fossil fuel technologies are making some people a lot of money. It will take a lot of time, money and research before alternative energy technologies can compete with fossil fuels. We can either push it on the population and force development, or subsidize research/development with taxes. If we do neither, we will just have to wait until gas/oil is quite a bit more expensive than it is before the alternative energy technology becomes feasible for the private sector to develop and produce.
Getting a little off track so this will be my last post on this subject but, I disagree because a capitalist society is about the entreprenuer, competition, and American ingenuity. I realize that fossil fuels make people money but so did Apple and there are still other cell phone makers in the world. Matter of fact Apple is valued around $90bn more than ExxonMobile...Apple joins exclusive $500bn club.

It's not the governments job to force ANYTHING on people.