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Old 05-24-2014, 09:53 AM  
crockett
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Originally Posted by PR_Glen View Post
yeah because the big lobbyists are the ones with the technologies to make things efficient and affordable...
The ones with the technologies to make these things, usually don't get their feet off the ground to make them efficient and affordable, because their products get shot down before they can make headway.

Look at Elon Musk as one of the rare few that has both the ingenuity and the money backing him to overcome what big oil and power industry can do. Even still Telsa has a very hard road where several states have actually made it illegal for him to sell his cars there. Texas is one of them, I think NC was another.

Now look at all his money and it's still a struggle to push forward against big oil, big auto with a proven concept that works. Now think of some small time company trying to do the same. It doesn't happen..

go back and look at the history of the "tucker" car.. otr the guy that invented the windshield wiper, big business keeping the under dogs down by using the govt is nothing new..

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