Reply #4: I don't recall who said it, but I read a great quote once

[vixengrl]

that you never hear about the military having to have a bake sale for a missle system. But a massive solar energy farm...something that would wean our nation off dependence on fossil fuel from unfriendly mid-east nations, that might actually reduce our involvement in that volatile area and play down the hatred our involvement there has led to?

Sheesh. And it would be clean energy, too, cutting down on asthma and emphesyma and long-term, high-dollar health care bills? Are we dreaming, yet?