Over the last five years, every new major alternative-energy initiative that initially was promised government funding has since seen that funding severely curtailed  In no such case has the government come even close to providing the level of funds initially earmarked for these projects
Since large corporations have made it a point to discourage alternative-energy projects, it is likely that the corporations' actions influenced the government' s funding decisions
All large corporations have made it a point to discourage some forms of research.