We have been bombarded for years with lectures from Mr. Obama and the left in general about how America is "not doing enough" to "invest" in alternative energy sources. A Google on "America alternative energy falling behind" yields 4,300,000 hits, like this one, which opens with this: "Analysts believe that unless the US government does more ..." Analysts believe -- always a comforting sign. And of course the government should be doing more, shouldn't it? Duly burdened by guilt that my government was not "doing more," I used to wonder how Germany, being so far north and overcast, could be a world leader in electric generation from solar panels. I thought, "Wow, it's that fantastic German engineering!" Well, I was partly right, as a recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal makes clear. Except it was not German engineering that created the miracle, but social engineering: tax consumers through mandated "feed-in tariffs" on their electric bills to subsidize an industry that has no hope of being profitable. Sounds like....
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