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Provocative PTC Article in Popular Science Magazine
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">Well just going back a couple posts, Overmod said this:</span></p> <p><span style="color:#0000ff;font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">“Do you actually think that there is a PTC-industrial complex that has successfully lobbied the Congress and the Administration to implement a grand plan that shoves footballs of indiscriminate money into corporate coffers?”</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">I was not sure what corporate coffers he was talking about. Obviously, he must have meant the coffers of the PTC suppliers. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">So to answer his question, I say YES I do think that there is a PTC industrial complex (or collective interest) that has successfully lobbied the Congress and the Administration to mandate PTC on behalf of the profit interest of the PTC industrial complex. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">That has nothing to do with whether or not PTC is worthwhile. It may indeed by worthwhile. Or it may only be 75% worthwhile, and the lobbying by the PTC industry provided the other 25% of the impetus to get Congress to mandate PTC. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">So I did not mean to suggest that the entire mandate for PTC was a product only of the PTC lobby, if that is what Overmod meant. </span></p>
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