Obama’s $4bn clean-energy initiative: a big number hiding a bigger idea
Granted, the Obama administration’s approach won’t make everyone happy. Eli Lehrer, founder of libertarian thinktank R Street, would prefer to see the government eliminate all energy subsidies, put a tax on carbon, then step back and let the market work unaided. But even Lehrer called it “better than the heavy-handed big-government approach”.
