Tariffs and sky high audio prices.

Inna sez ...

"Black people made an enormous contribution as well."

Little known facts:

Duke Ellington composed over 2000 pieces of music, including several symphonies. 

Freddie Green played rhythm guitar for the Count Basie orchestra for over 50 years and was the driving force behind the orchestra. 

Charlie Parker never played the same idea twice.

Bud Powell was a genius. 

Dinah Washington sang "Blue Gardenia" better than anyone on the planet before or since. 

Billie Holliday was a tortured, but beautiful soul.

Need I say more.

Frank

PS: Sorry about getting off topic, but this something I'm really passionate about.

"...automakers like BMW, Volvo, Buick and other makes being made in China, for the Chinese market, with the eventuality that they will export to other parts of the globe."

I avoided mentioning it but now when you touched it, Volvo XC 60 used to be produced in China and imported to the USA. It has changed recently. I believe that Volvo S90 is still made only in China. It is sold most everywhere.

"Need I say more."

Yes.

Chuck Berry.

In order to build wind turbines and blades, it takes steel. Steel production needs coal. Same for electric cars ... made of steel, or aluminum. Make them out of plastic, you say? That takes oil.

Solar panels use minerals. Minerals need to be mined from the earth. Mining machinery uses petroleum products and tears up the earth. 

Can any neo-environmentalist state how green energy can be produced by strictly using only green energy?

Frank

That's too easy. Use coal to make steel but not to heat water into steam in order to spin a turbine, like the wind does.

The underlying logic that seems to defy some here is that steps have to be taken for progress to be made. Subsides have to be shifted in order to do so. 

Lots of R&D and time will bring costs down, like in any endeavor.

No one likes to admit it and they always leave out the military costs of securing and protecting oil resources and reserves. That's one hell of a subsidy but when you honestly factor it in, renewables look like the cheaper way to proceed. 

Everything needs something else to be made. It doesn't come to us wrapped in a bow. It's a matter of policy and priorities and some sane minds to figure it all out, not some bottom line of a profit driven corporation, answering to it's shareholders, which, the last time I looked, aren't mentioned in the Constitution.

All the best,
Nonoise