&gt; The actual reason for those subsidies is to protect the US solar panel industry. China&#x27;s panels are artificially cheap because China massively subsidizes their manufacture. These are known as &quot;countervailing duties&quot; [1].<p>&gt; The likely alternative to that is allowing China&#x27;s subsidized panels to undercut domestic producers, we have cheap panels until our industry goes entirely out of business, and then have prices get jacked up because the competition is gone.<p>Isn’t that what half of Silicon Valley is doing?<p>Let’s look at Google. Undercut competitors in niche markets, financed with Search revenue, then increase prices or kill it completely (Google Apps for Work, etc).<p>Let’s look at Uber. Undercut competitors financed with investment money, making losses, then increase prices.<p>Are you sure you are making a case pro-Google?