America Lags Behind Other Nations In Alternative Energy Research
September 10, 2009 by admin
America lags behind other nations in alternative energy research.
According to a recent article in The Washington Post China appears to be the world leader in Green Energy Technology. China is spending 10 times what the U.S. is spending on clean power as a percentage of gross domestic product. This even though the U.S. Economy is still 1.5 times larger than the Chinese economy.
Now excuse me for saying this but , THIS IS PATHETIC!! Some of the greatest innovations in the world have come from the minds and hands of Americans. The government of this country needs to step up to the plate and start offering some serious economic incentives for developing new renewable resource technologies. Instead they would rather give the money in tax breaks to some of the most serious offenders when it comes to clean energy.
Two trillion dollars a year are at stake and steadily climbing. That’s right $2,000,000,000,000.00 a year. (Figure from The Washington Post)
That could put a serious dent in the national deficit, could it not? Unless this current Administration starts to put some serious incentives out for research and development, we will find ourselves the third world country looking abroad at the new super powers, and wondering what happened.
America does lag behind other nations in Alternative energy research. Unless we want to find our selves as the burger flippers of the world we need to get to work.
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