General Electric / Tesla Motors / Digital Equipment Corporation / Synthetic Fuels Corporation / Enron / Ecotality / MCI Corporation / The Washington Post / Celera / Overseas Private Investment Company / Apple / J.P. Morgan / Thomas Edison’s Edison Electric Illuminating Company / AT&T / Nokia / J.P. Morgan Chase / The Insider Summer 2012 Technologies / Export-Import Bank / /
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America / Europe / /
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Netherlands / Japan / Canada / China / Germany / New Zealand / United States / /
Beacon Power / Clinch River Breeder Reactor / Cato Institute / /
IndustryTerm
energy subsidies / green energy / green-technology program / fossil-fuel technologies / energy policy / telecommunications industry / green energy activities / particular solar technology / energy / particular energy technologies / telecommunications revolution / green cars / manufacturing / postal services / postal systems / venture capital / transportation sector / energy industry / biotechnology / niche products / capital equipment / electricity / energy independence / solar energy lags / electronics / green energy subsidies / green energy firms / transportation infrastructure / venture capital market / green energy commercialization / subsidizing green energy commercialization / /
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federal Bureau of Reclamation / House of Representatives / U.S. government / Government Accountability Office / Committee on the Budget / Obama administration / Department of Housing and Urban Development / MITI / Department of Energy / Cato Institute / Bureau of Economic Analysis / Congressional Budget Office / U.S. Postal Service / World Bank / federal government / Innovation By Chris Edwards and Tad DeHaven Rising government / Institute for Policy Studies / /
Person
Jeffrey Eisenach / Bill Gates / Fred Smith / Jimmy Carter / James Nelson / DeHaven Rising / Craig Venter / Nathan Rosenberg / L.E. Birdzell / Robert Reich / Robert Novak / Kevin W. Caves / /
Position
energy consultant / President / budget analyst / entrepreneur / founder / powerful driver / Professor / executive / solar company executive / Director of Tax Policy Studies / economist / central planner / leader / Journalist / /
Product
SpaceShipOne / /
ProvinceOrState
Tennessee / /
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Washington Post / The Washington Post / /
Technology
human genome / cell phones / Genomics / broadband / biotechnology / smart phones / particular solar technology / particular energy technologies / fossil-fuel technologies / /
Corporate Welfare It’s Not Just a Drain on the Federal Budget, It’s a Drain on Innovation By Chris Edwards and Tad DeHaven Rising government spending and huge