Would you buy a car to buy a cake?

Would you buy a car to buy a cake?  Seems like a silly question, but please humor me.  Lets say your boss ordered you to bring a cake to work tomorrow.  You have no transportation, no time to buy an oven or learn how to bake a cake so you decide to buy one from a bakery.  The nearest bakery is 100 miles away.  No one else in your area has transportation either so it looks like you will have to buy a car to get that cake.  If you are going to buy a car might as well go brand new and get the best car you can.  That car will come in real handy for other things so lets see, how much is all of this going to cost.  
Cake, that's cheap $20.00.  The car, taxes, insurance, licensing, Fuel etc.:  $40,000.00.  The company doesn't have enough money to pay for this and neither do you so of course, all of the customers are going to be required to pick up the tab.  Do you think the customers are ready to pay up?  Common sense and the simplicity of economics would stop the purchase of the cake and the car. 

A similar economic quandary exists today surrounding the distribution and application of renewable energy mandates.  Yes, the means of producing green energy is available, the dream and desire are in place, but we as a nation, as individual states, and as individuals do not have the thousands of miles of transmission lines in place to move that wonderful renewable energy from the production point to the consumer.  Those miles and miles of transmission lines have to be built and some one is going to have to pay for the location aquisition, materials, labor and construction. 

Federal and state legislation requiring green energy production have failed to consider who is going to pay the cost to put the transmission lines in place.  Noticeable and predictable, New Mexico's elected officials do not appear to be questioning a thing regarding the impact of federal green renewable mandates on our state.  Can New Mexico absorb the massive financial burden required to fund infrastructure improvement for renewable transmission?  I suggest not - New Mexico can barely make payroll.   So where is the money going to come from?  Ultimately, the working tax paying citizen and consumers will pay the price but given current economic conditions, can we as a nation, as states, as individual citizens afford this right now? 

Our government officials live in an insulated environment continuing to stumble blindly forward with no regard to the financial realities we as states and individuals face on a daily basis.  Our current state and federal representatives are failing to step up to the plate on our behalf, choosing instead to ride the party band wagon, positioning I believe will cost the dearly in this next round of elections. 

Green renewable energy is a viable technology, but a romantic notion at this point given the economic state of New Mexico and America as a nation.   As consumers we are forced to live within the realistic parameters of of economics every day but our government does not?  Wouldn't it be a better directive to stabilize our economy in order to have realistic financial capacity to fund green renewable energy generation and transmission. Would you buy a car to buy a cake?