>    "The project is being underwritten in part by rebates
>     from the California Energy Commission's Emerging
>     Renewables Buydown program, and incentives from
>     California PUC."
>
> And about as close to realizing 'free energy' as we'll
> ever get - gov't grants paid for by 'pinching' the rest
> of us ... corporate welfare anyone?

Presumably this is an attempt to get those responsible to pay the PERCEIVED
real costs of usage of IC engine vehicles. Such as smog / sickness / general
pollution / Global Warming :-) and their ilk


        RM

* - I say perceived as an (surely ineffective) advance shield against
protest :-)

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