Analogias, subsídios e estatais compadrios

No New York Times, A Gold Rush of Subsidies in Clean Energy Search, uma analogia perfeita que tudo sintetiza, de forma lapidar (via Carpe Diem):

“It is like building a hotel, where you know in advance you are going to have 100 percent room occupancy for 25 years,” said Kevin Smith, chief executive of SolarReserve, whose Nevada solar project power-purchase agreement with the state’s largest utility and a $737 million Energy Department loan guarantee and is on track to receive a $200 million Treasury grant.