“The one thing that is absolutely clear is that the best price of the product is what is negotiated in the market place where all the players are competing very fiercely. Subsidies generally do not promote efficiency; they even support high prices. Essentially, what the government is supporting with the subsidy is businesses, not really so much as the consumers, because there is no incentive for you to be efficient, there is no incentive to get equipment that does better than the ones you have.