"Free" or "Crony" Markets

Which should America support - ‘free markets’ for energy sources that are cost effective or ‘free subsidies’ doled out by the administration for wind, solar, thermal or algae that are wasted on crony capitalism? The Tea Party has known all along that Obama only talks to college students ( even OSU) whose hormones are receptive to deceptive mush about alternative energy sources, gorged on subsidies and grants. Reasoning persons know they cannot provide more than a few percentage points worth of energy compared with cheap and available coal and gas and that they don’t require subsidies and grants. We know the XL pipe line promise he made today is made with crossed fingers. What can we do other than educate each and every person we meet on a daily basis?