The Federal Government has no business involving us, our money (taxes) in any business other than the business of the Constitution.
I used to object to Obama picking winners and losers with his taxpayer funded bailouts and loans. I did that until I realized the Idiot-in-Chief hasn’t yet picked a winner.
As Austria has shown with its “carrot, stick and tambourine” strategy, you must go full bore with forced conversion (regulations or the “stick,”) fiscal/subsidy/deduction/avoided cost and regularory exemption incentives (”carrot”) and lots of PR and public reinforcement (”tambourine”) or you won’t be successful.
Right now what we have is a subsidy from the lower middle class to the upper and upper middle class in rate breaks and taxes. (Most middle class can’t afford conversion.)
The names of the natural individuals constituting the principle private investors and the officers, directors, managers of each of these companies and their provision of donations to “The Divine One” and/or the Democratic party should be revealed.