[sammyg2]

There has been a belief for a long time that if we spend enough money and effort on alternative energy, we will all the sudden discover some new way of doing it, some new form of energy generation that will be cheaper and more efficient than what we have now.

Obama is still saying that same thing.
Unfortunately what he and many other "greenies" will not admit is that we've been throwing money at this for a long time with little or no positive results.

He talks about solar cells as cheap as paint. That is a PIPE DREAM!

Just because he and the greenies wish something would happen will not make it so. They are basing energy policy on unsubstantiated fantasy.

What will happen is we will spend and incredible amount of taxpayer money forcing the consumer (us) to use an alternative energy that costs signficantly more than what we have now.
We will be forced to pay for it's development and it's use, and we will continue to be forced to pay for it even though it costs too much. Think of it as another never-ending energy tax.

We will not export this "new" technology because the rest of the world will be laughing at us and will ask, why would we want to use that technology when it is so expensive and so inneficient it would bankrupt us also?
They will not follow us into failure.