[quote=TheBreeze] The carmaker bailout isn’t even going to amount to $200 billion most likely. Pocket change really.
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Can you imagine what we might get if we threw $200B at Tesla Motors, ZPM, EEStor and a few other alternate technology makers? Maybe nothing, or maybe we could really start to reduce non-north-american oil dependence. But it’s always safer to go with what you know than to take a chance on something new. At least then you can’t be criticized for failing.