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Unless you have a ready supply of oranges (your latest metaphor for solar/wind energy?) then making demands that those oranges be properly distributed immediately is useless. As I see it, it is not the cost of solar/wind energy power generation that is the issue - it is whether a given power plant (or motor vehicle) can be converted from coal, oil or gas (fossil fuel) to wind/solar at all with currently available technology (even if sufficient funds could be made available).
Actually, my attempted analogy was that it is a crisis situation, but we don't know bad the crisis is. The time of fossil fuel energy is coming to an end, and it is time to stop subsidizing them. Subsidies should be going to emerging industries, not mature ones with politicians waiting to suck their wallet for campaign contributions. There is data on the decreasing cost of producing renewables, and if you think storage is a problem remember that floppy discs were very expensive, and now I have a free 4GB usb drive in my pocket.