Who Needs Oil When You Have Sand?

Check out the world's largest solar array planned for the Sahara Desert. About 20 German companies are looking into scattering panels throughout the region, eventually creating enough energy to power Europe. 

Granted the $555 billion price tag is a bit daunting, but we spent more than that on the TARP bailout. GO EASY, I'm not saying we shouldn't have done TARP, I'm merely making the point that if we really want it, we could change things in the USA pretty quickly.

But why is it that it seems that this type of big thinking only comes from Europe? And when we try to give tax breaks and other incentives for companies to make bold moves, the left complains that we're favoring Big Business or the right claims Obama is a socialist?

In the words of Hyman Roth in Godfather II, we need a "true partnership" between business and government (of course he was talking about pre-Castro Cuba partnering with the Mafia). Other countries are wooing clean energy business, innovation, manufacturing...the whole 9.  And we can't even get a wind farm built off the shore of Cape Cod.

Wake up people.  The sun is shining, but getting closer to setting.