If a technology is market ready and competitive, it shouldn’t need government assistance to be successful. http://t.co/EUda9fIST3

— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) April 18, 2014

Oh boy. The car. Airplanes. The Internet. All had private development, but couldn’t flourish without a government acting to build roads, airports, air traffic control systems, internet protocols and oversight for consistency.

Or railroads, which got land grants to expand across the country.

But Heritage thinks that the government shouldn’t be providing incentives to the renewable and energy efficient technology fields.

Let’s just ignore that the tax code offers up tax incentives for depletion, oil and gas exploration, and other incentives to find and exploit energy and mineral deposits. Those costs are so much higher than what the DOE proposes for alt-energy that it’s boggling.