I want to know. This is a very big issue.
2006-11-22 15:36:42 · 6 answers · asked by myaspan 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Anything is too much. Taxpayers foot the bill, and some company reaps the profits. When demand exceeds supply, innovations follow.
2006-11-22 15:42:18 · answer #1 · answered by normobrian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on the year but about 1 tenth of 1 % of the total budget
I believe for strict R&D its less then 40 mill
We do give stipends to the oil companies of about 5 billion a year
So Exxon Mobile which broke all time records for profits about 3 times in the last year and a half(9.9 billion profit last time around)
They also gave their CEO a retirement package worth about 400 mill, they receive about 1.25 billion in taxpayer dollars. So we pay the richest companies in the world about a 15o times what we pay scientists new fuels and more efficent ways to use present technology
2006-11-22 23:58:18 · answer #2 · answered by gdeach 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No where near enough since the big gas companies donate to political campaigns so our representatives vote to support the gas companies and not alternative energy sources.
Sad, isn't it?
2006-11-22 23:43:55 · answer #3 · answered by honey 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not anti bush so don't think that. I do remeber shortly after he took office there was a bill passed to stop funding a lot of those programs. Of course that was 6 years ago so I have no idea what ever became of it.
2006-11-22 23:45:13 · answer #4 · answered by Stand 4 somthing Please! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not enough apparently, or we'd all have solar powered cars
2006-11-22 23:38:10 · answer #5 · answered by Lovely 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
alot
2006-11-22 23:39:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋