We Could Have Had Solar Power...

...for 1/4 the cost of the bailout!
In this month's National Geographic magazine article on solar power, a professor floated out the cost of $400 billion to build enough solar arrays in the desert of the American southwest to meet this country's energy needs. For reference, we just spent $700 billion on the recent bailout, and roughly $1.5 trillion on the economic stimulus package. Which comes to over 2 trillion dollars.

I'm not against spending large sums of money. I'm just against wasting it.