Scribe wrote...
To stimulate the Western Economy we desperately need a huge boost to industry, now this could come from the military buuuut wouldn't boosting the green industry which contains literally trillions of dollars of untapped wealth and millions of well paid jobs world wide ready for the taking.
For instance, give the "Big Three" incentives attached to their bailout to start producing hydrogen and electric cars, bring the oil companies on board with Hydrogen filling stations and algie oil replacement technology.
The best part being literally everyone would jump on-board and invest because it's already the world fastest growing industry, consumers are starting to love green products for to relive their guilt/help the enviroment and people have always loved gratuitous wealth.
Also what better way to start gaining energy independence then to start moving to green and unfortunately but necessarily nuclear power.
Energy issues aside, where are we going to get the money to transform industries primarily based on gas-chugging vehicles? And the money to implement said technology? Idealisitc, but unrealisitic given our current situation. On top of that, like FPOD mentioned, people don't have the money to buy things like that. People with Hybrids don't get the advantages of driving them until a couple to 5 years later, then they start saving on the money.