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I wonder how China does it when we can’t. We had the lead and the technology.

Yeah, it’s really smart of us to cheer the bankruptcy of one of our own companies.

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Brian: No one is cheering the demise of an American company. That’s a complete red herring and a cheap rhetorical attempt to deflect focus from the facts.

As was just pointed out, this is not a Left versus Right rant, but a pointed reference to the “true” cost of green energy. As has already been discovered by Spain, England and Germany, there are significant costs, both direct and opportunity, in green energy. As I’ve pointed out, the government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers, but should instead be promoting R&D efforts and then let the market drive the winners.

How can China do it, you ask? Well, if you’re interested in facts, China is NOT doing it. Its a friggin’ Potemkin Village over there, as evidenced by the recent chem/enviro issues in Dalian and that supposed “accident” involving high speed rail. The idea that we’re ceding the lead to China can be disproved and any lead that China is enjoying will be ephemeral at best.