It's amazing to me how many people in America, including politicians, do not understand this most basic of universal laws. This is NOT a rule of the government or a rule of mind, but a LAW of the universe like gravity and time. It works regardless of the situation you put it to. Communists think they can legislate it out of existance, but you can't.

When the Pilgrims first landed in Massachuesetts, they set up a COMMUNIST system of economics. They had all farm land in common. They worked the land together and harvested and shared the produce equally. The result: the farmland produced little, the colony starved, and less than half survived until Spring. (Sounds like the USSR in 1990.) The Pilgrims changed their approach. Each person was given an equal plot of land to farm from which they were to work to survive the next winter. "If you don't work, you don't eat." That fall, they had a bumper crop and noone starved that winter. The first Thanksgiving was celebrated.

Any resource that is finite (such as time and money) succumbs to the law of supply, demand, and price. The solar industry is NOT price competitive with other options at the present time. In a few instances, solar and wind are the only viable option (off-grid electricity). Government taxes are interfering with the market to artificially change the price for a larger market. The low supply of solar cells do not meet the high demand in its current limited sphere and are thus expensive. The current supply of gasoline is also insufficient to meet present gas demand and thus gasoline and diesel fuels are rising in price.

Over 76% of the profits of the oil and gas industry is re-invested back into the industry. Having been a former employee of a well services company, I can easily vouch for how EXPENSIVE it is to do this work. Millions of dollars changed hands from subcontractor to subcontractor on a daily basis just to drill and bring online each well on land, even more for offshore wells.

By comparison, Microsoft and other software companies make a MUCH higher margin with much less investment. With Microsoft's monopoly, they do whatever they want, even today after the 90s DOJ anti-trust trial. Comparing Google and Exxon, who's got greater "windfall profits"?

Vote em all out, replace them with democrats. I'm sure ALL Republicans aren't corrupt, but it's too much trouble figuring out who is among that %0.0001. Just vote them all out- whoever can manage to stay out of prison after all the war profiteering and crime is accounted for can maybe join whatever new political party might rise from the ashes of the Republican criminal organization.