| We all know the problem with industry sector | | | | that nice and worthy of our funding? Sure and so |
| bubbles, and when they burst it effects us all. We | | | | was an Internet that will supply us every our every |
| remember all too well the Dot Com bubble burst that | | | | desire, or the wonderful concept of home ownership |
| crushed Silicon Valley. The sector clearly got away | | | | for everyone, regardless of their ability to repay and |
| from itself with massive runaway nonsense. People | | | | a real estate investment that would go up forever? |
| starting a website basically and taking it public and | | | | Folks, I run a Think Tank, and we have been |
| walking away along with their Vulture Capitalists with | | | | reviewing business plans, prototypes, concepts, and |
| 10s if not 100s of millions of dollars only to do it | | | | ideas for new energy generation schemes involving |
| again, and again, with no reality behind it. | | | | clean energy exploitation. Most of them will never |
| Sure, many viable companies came out of it, even | | | | turn a positive ROI, but they all seem to be getting |
| some dot coms that that actually eventually started | | | | funded, but why? If they do not make sense, why is |
| making real money, but we watched that irrational | | | | all this money flowing in this direction. |
| exuberance and runaway profit taking of nothing but | | | | We've recently seen many ethanol plants belly up |
| hot air, so that balloon was ready for a fall, with | | | | and many new projects die on the vine for lack of |
| everyone left in the basket, but up, up and away | | | | construction credit. Why is this happening? Well, the |
| until the very last day. | | | | plants are not viable, and cannot return an |
| The Housing Bubble, got to be completely insane, in | | | | investment unless they are subsidized and/or unless |
| the same runaway fashion and look where we are | | | | gasoline is selling above $3.45 a gallon. |
| today, as that effected not only our nation's financial | | | | Well, look what we are doing now with alternative |
| system, but the entire world that was naïve | | | | green energy projects, pouring money into them, |
| enough to believe that the bundled mortgages were | | | | subsidizing them, even penalizing other more viable |
| as viable as their AAA stamps. Folks if it sounds too | | | | energy systems that work and have worked for |
| good to be true, you had better check six, but not | | | | years. Folks, we are building a bubble, a beautiful |
| that time, no once again, they flew straight and level | | | | bubble, one where a perfect Utopian life can be had, |
| into the Sunset. | | | | one that will last forever - well as long as we keep |
| Now we are building a new bubble, a beautiful bubble | | | | pouring exponentially more money into it. |
| built on a beautiful promise, one of clean energy, isn't | | | | Will we ever learn? |