Compared to other things that the government wastes money on, R&D expenditures yield a huge long-run return. I’m all for anything to spur improvements in productive capacity — private or government-funded.

Investing in green energy (PEOPLE doing it, not governments) will put jobs in the U.S., and will keep our money from the hands of our enemies. This seems like it should be right up your alley.

Look, people are going to consume what they are going to consume. I don’t thing it’s a bad thing, either. What grates me the most is when leftist professors, et al, magically propose “cutting our consumption.”

The American consumption (or consumption of any other part of the world, for that matter) isn’t going to drop any time soon. Energy is a necessary resource for our, and the world, economy.

The government should have little to do with the private market in general, in my opinion. This includes energy. To me, and many other people, it has not even begun to be proven that human activity (a.k.a. “C02″ or whatever boogeyman) has such a significant impact on global warming, which has been a phenomenon in the past and will be one in the future of our planet.

I’m all in favor of economical solutions to anything - if people can save a few bucks doing this or that in the “green” mold, so be it, I’m all for it. On the other hand, absent conclusive evidence, I don’t think crippling any country’s economy in favor of a “global warming” scheme that is not proven will solve anything. Rather, further controls and regulations will only serve to endanger the economy further and as pointed out before, wouldn’t fix the “global warming” or output problem anyway.

1) Stop using so much oil in the first place, since almost all of the money leaves the country and much ends up in the hands of our enemies (Chavez or certain Middle Eastern countries).

2) Invest in alternative, domestic sources of energy and put jobs in THIS country.