Yes. They should finance their own research costs, design costs, test costs, production costs and put it for sale on the market. Then they should compete with other companies doing the same thing. Those contracts carrying their every cost is a subsidized manufacturer. They have little to no exposure at all. The energy industry should have it so good.
Free market or not free market. Not.
National security trumps doctrinaire conservatism here. And it should on our next fighter jet. But energy independence is just as important a national security issue.
I do not disagree with what you are saying, but there is no reason to subsidize energy production such as ethanol if alternatives exist that are not subsidized.
You seem to want subsidies for some unwarranted reason.
I believe this country is much better off not to rely on the federal tit.