Shouldn’t we concentrate on enabling new technologies and businesses to develop needed technology and methods to solve this problem by enabling market forces to drive solutions?
• Fee & Dividend provides the best of both worlds. A progressively increasing fee drives incentive to develop new technologies and methods to achieve the goal of reduce greenhouse gas emissions. • By avoiding subsidizing the development we avoid allowing the policy to become a political football that politicians and corporations will fight over. • Reducing the fight over funds reduces the inefficiency of political corporate development. • Anyone that is even slightly familiar with the ability of government and corporate subsidy knows that it generates a large bulk of competing proposals that are lobbied at policy maker level by the corporations that want the money. This typically causes many less efficient, less effective, and sometimes even absurd technologies to be developed with taxpayer money. More often than not, these technologies are ineffective. • Reducing or eliminating the subsidy impels the corporations to only develop solutions that will be meaningful to the market reality.
