Can the same old anti-government regulation talking points of the last 30 years of GOP corporate shilling win the war(s) we find ourselves in now? 

Removing subsidies for the old energy economy wouldn't be enough to win this time around.  Subsidies need to be diverted to the new energy economy.

The "free" market could choose which path to follow if those paths actually existed.  But to open those paths, like plugin hybrids, government needs to set standards and order millions of units of these vehicles in order to spur mass production.

That means government has to choose plugin hybrids over hydrogen fuel cell, flex fuel ICE, or the other alternatives.  Because there is not the time or capital to follow dead ends.

The way to preserve market efficiency is to throw out the dogmatic free marketeerian philosophy,  like FDR did during WW2 war production.

This whole Reagan revolution religious economics has been proven to be worse than useless.  We have to get over worshipping at the feet of the so[called free market economy.

Plugin hybrids, solar cogeneration panels, ground source heating/cooling systems, biogas digestor fuel cell distributed power plants, and smart grid systems all have to have standards for performance determined by government in order to measure GHG savings and respective subsidy levels.

This effort needs planning, government planning and selection of standards and orders of millions of these devices to push mass production.  Let different suppliers compete on cost, product quality, and marketing.

I watched a history channel presentation about D-day, the rangers that scaled the cliffs at Omaha beach just kept going no matter how many were killed.  If they could do that, why can't we do what we actually want to do now.

Government needs to bulldoze over corporate boardroom resistance and let US manufacture this energy re-evolution.  This isn't a time to fret about defying the religious dogma of the free marketeeerian corporatist political movement that brought us this economic crash and GHG disaster and oil war after oil war on into a dark oily future.

Lobbyists and your think tank shills,get real jobs, you're fired!