Do We Need Cash to Go Green?

Japan recently began offering its citizens "eco-points" for buying new electronics products and tax breaks for eco cars; the resulting sales are helping boost its struggling economy. Not to be left behind, the U.S. soon followed suit, passing a "cash for clunkers" law that pays incentives for trade-ins of gas guzzlers for new, more efficient autos. Designed to help the economy, but also spur use of "greener" products, should paying incentives be a more-favored path to push Green?

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