The two major players in the field are puny small cap companies trying to fund their infrastructure and R&D by diluting the equity of their stockholders to do so. How many other “select” businesses get fed govt funding for their R&D and infrastructure — and I’m not restricting it to just the power and commo businesses?
Call it what you will, it was government funding and it included all forms of infrastructure including the TVA and dams, nuclear power plants, railroads, etc, etc. It’s been going on in just about every enterprise and has been for well over a century. Electricity, the telephone, railroads and highways were viewed as novelties at one time too but all those businesses were helped by the Fed Govt funding to raise the standard of living for all Americans since the 19th century.
There is a significant difference in building out original infrastructure, compared to using tax payer dollars to fund the next competing service.
Sorry you cannot understand that. We have a significant Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution Infrastructure. A Nat Gas Vehicle Fueling station is just another customer on the same lines.
It doesn’t need my tax dollars to work. It didn’t need my tax dollars to build the NatGas station near where I live. It doesn’t need our tax dollars to build one near you either.