Not so.Your argument would have validity had the research been done by those private companies, who had to pacify investors and shareholders, however it is being done in the main by State Agencies ,
As I quoted I was replying to a post proposing that two big fuel companies, Shell and BP provide the investment to carry out additional research to speed up the process. My argument was entirely valid within that context since it is their investors and shareholders who would need to be pacified.
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