Except if we had wanted to be green energy in the 1980s, we would have given Carter a second term which means we would have had investment in Solar panels too.

Except if we had wanted to be green energy in the 1980s, we would have given Carter a second term which means we would have had investment in Solar panels too. We would have likely seen a similar level of massive decrease in cost (not as big though, no chinese manufacturing) to make it pretty competitive. But America didn't want to do the hard work of spending a hundred billion dollars on infrastructure and investment to our country. We wanted the cocaine fueled orgy of capitalism that Reagan promised us. So we ripped the solar panels off of the whitehouse and shared a bed with Saudi Arabia. Now gas is cheap as chips so we can just burn as much as we want!