> But what drove solar adoption over the last decade is the plunging price of panels ...which was heavily subsidized by the Obama administration plowing billio

> But what drove solar adoption over the last decade is the plunging price of panels ...which was heavily subsidized by the Obama administration plowing billions of taxpayer dollars into solar R&D. We could end the reliance on gasoline tomorrow by removing subsidies on ethanol and putting them into EVs, but it's politically unfeasible. Although I totally agree with you that economic change must precede any big change in energy.