And then what happened after that? Oh, later on, investors got together and made the product affordable. Yet the reason why the average joe can put himself in massive debt to buy himself an escalade, an LCD TV with HD. All this stuff a long time ago was out of reach, but eventually when one dude figured out how to make it cheap, well everyone had access to it.
Eventually the same sh-- will happen with alternative fuel sources, and if it doesn't then we as a society have failed to advance ourselves and are doomed to extinction.