Government subsidies are also responsible for Fed. Crop Insurance, Interstate highway system, Many hydroelectric dams, several of the transcontinental railroads, low cost rural power and telephone service. Take away the subsidies and about the only one that will dwindle away would be the crop ins. Once built, whether subsidized or not, the physical stuff will endure. As it stands right now, our solar panels are much pricier than in other parts of the world. Some of that is due to misguided market distorting trade embargoes and some due to the fact that the subsidies have also distorted the free market and pushed their prices higher. Get the government completely out of solar and our panel prices should level to world price and installs would continue to sky rocket as prices drop and efficiencies rise.