Dipshytes like...
Do you mean dipshytes like George W. Bush, who thinks hydrogen is the answer when it takes more energy to make hydrogen then you get from the resulting hydrogen fuel? Or dipshytes like the US Congress who subsidizes crowing corn with fossil fuel so we can turn it into ethanol which again takes more energy to make than it stores?
Your fabulous "free" market -- which by the way is a utopian concept just like Marx's utopian socialism, as it has never existed anywhere -- demands lots and lots of cheap oil, so now we're fighting a trillion-dollar war, which will turn into 3 trillion dollars when and if we ever pay off the massive debt we're going into. I won't even mention the daily slaughter of our troops. Oops, I just did.
We can let the so-called "market" (which really means corporate boards and industry-funded think tanks) keep making these seriously destructive choices for us, or we can subsidize R&D of this and other new alternative energies to the tune of way less than what we spend subsidizing all the worthless corn and soybeans that are polluting the environment and making us a bunch of cornsyrup-swilling fat pigs (gee, do you think corn being 2.5 cents a pound has anything to do with soaring childhood obesity rates and an epidemic of type-2 diabetes in kids? That's the market too. I guess we should just let all those kids die, unless you want them to be healthy enough to go fight in Iraq in 10 years).
I'm willing to support the cessation of government meddling with the market if you are. That will mean no more cheap oil, corn, roads and higher interest rates, as well as a plethora of things I could probably spend all day looking up, but you probably would rather have me finish our 2006 Naked Euro Bike test first.
-Gabe