Profiteering wind and solar rent-seekers have only one real fear in the electricity market: actual competition. Claims from renewable energy profiteers that wind and solar are truly competitive with nuclear, coal or gas evaporate the instant policymakers start talking about removing subsidies to wind and solar. Back in 1983 the American Wind Industry Association claimed … Continue reading Forever Subsidised: America’s Wind & Solar ‘Industries’ Biggest Fear Is Real Competition
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Perpetual Subsidy Sucker: Why The Wind Industry Will Never Grow Up
One thing you’ll never, ever hear from wind power outfits is a call to cut the subsidies that sustain them. Remarkably, whether in Germany, Australia, Ontario or Texas, renewables rent seekers all speak the same language. When talk turns to subsidies, you’ll only ever hear words like ‘more’. Challenge them about their nonsensical claims that … Continue reading Perpetual Subsidy Sucker: Why The Wind Industry Will Never Grow Up