Originally Posted by notabook

You know how much money the government spent developing the atomic bomb? Roughly 25 billion dollars when you adjust for inflation. Twenty-Five BILLION dollars to develop a weapon that has the potential to wipe mankind from the face of the planet, spent in a period of a couple of years! You wanna know how much money the government has spent on alternative fuel research? If you ignore nuclear energy (lol), then roughly about 1 billion dollars... in the last decade