Arizona, joins West Virginia and Montana in scrapping its mandated target for wind and solar power generation. Referred to as the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), its economic cost naturally outstrips any notional benefit (the only benefit being enjoyed is by wind and solar rent seekers). Finally, legislators are waking up to the scale and scope … Continue reading Arizona Prevents Economic Trainwreck By Scrapping Wind & Solar Subsidies & Mandates
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How To Destroy Jobs & Wreck An Economy: Add Even More Subsidised Wind & Solar
Those behind the greatest economic and environmental scam in history, still pretend that there's millions of groovy Green jobs in the making - as long as the massive subsidies keep heading in their direction. Trouble is, all the evidence suggests otherwise. Depriving your economy of reliable and affordable power is the fastest way to wreck … Continue reading How To Destroy Jobs & Wreck An Economy: Add Even More Subsidised Wind & Solar
Why Subsidised Wind & Solar Are Guaranteed To Destroy Our Wealth & Prosperity
Depriving your economy of reliable and affordable power is the fastest way to wreck it. Which is the very thrust of the policy that has been adopted by every country currently obsessed with subsidised wind and solar. The rent-seekers behind the greatest economic and environmental scam in history, still contend that there are millions of … Continue reading Why Subsidised Wind & Solar Are Guaranteed To Destroy Our Wealth & Prosperity
Promises, Promises: Wind Industry Insiders Moan About Mass Layoffs & Even Larger Losses
In the absence of massive subsidies, there would be no wind or solar ‘industries’, so-called. So, it should come as no surprise that the jobs “created” in association with those industries are an easy come, easy go, kind of affair. The promise of thousands of jobs building wind turbines and solar panels is a renewable energy … Continue reading Promises, Promises: Wind Industry Insiders Moan About Mass Layoffs & Even Larger Losses
Subsidy Cuts Mean Wind Turbine Makers Face Miserable & Uncertain Future
The wind industry was built on lies and runs on subsidies; cut the subsidies and the whole thing collapses in a heartbeat. Wind turbine makers like Germany’s Siemens are having a rather miserable time of it, of late. Subsidies were already being wound back across Europe (and with it demand for these whirling wonders) when … Continue reading Subsidy Cuts Mean Wind Turbine Makers Face Miserable & Uncertain Future
All Wind & Promises: New US Study Reveals Another Great ‘Green’ Jobs Hoax
The rocketing power prices caused by subsidised wind and solar have destroyed thousands of jobs in manufacturing and mineral processing, for starters. But, retorts the renewable energy rent seeker, think of all the green jobs ‘created’ by the wind and solar industries. Whether you call it a ‘Green New Deal’ or a ‘Great Green Reset’, … Continue reading All Wind & Promises: New US Study Reveals Another Great ‘Green’ Jobs Hoax
The Hidden Victims of ‘Green’ Virtue Signalling: Renewable Energy Costs Crushing Working Poor
Subsidised wind and solar is a playground for the vain, rich and cynical, and its victims are always on the wrong side of the tracks; unseen and unheard. Energy poverty is now an entrenched feature of first-world economies wherever wind and solar play any prominence in power systems. And it’s not simply the fact that … Continue reading The Hidden Victims of ‘Green’ Virtue Signalling: Renewable Energy Costs Crushing Working Poor
Net Loser: Subsidised Wind & Solar ‘Industries’ Destroy More Jobs Than They Ever Create
Calling wind and solar ‘industries’ is sloppy; any operation that can’t survive without massive and perpetual subsidies isn’t really an ‘industry’, at all. Industry connotes effort, output and production. Whereas the wind and solar scam involves destruction on all fronts: environmental, social and economic. The myth about so-called ‘green’ energy jobs, is just that. South … Continue reading Net Loser: Subsidised Wind & Solar ‘Industries’ Destroy More Jobs Than They Ever Create
Power Battle: Common Sense Abandoned With Push For More Intermittent Wind & Solar
Our good friends’ logic and reason were sacrificed long ago by the High Priests of the wind and solar cult. Attempt to point out the inevitable effect of sunset on solar output and/or calm weather on wind power output and you’ll be branded ‘heretic’, before you know it. You’ll be sent off to an education … Continue reading Power Battle: Common Sense Abandoned With Push For More Intermittent Wind & Solar
It’s Subsidised Wind & Solar or Meaningful Well-Paid Jobs: But You Can’t Have Both
Australian power prices went through the roof as a result of its obsession with chaotically intermittent and heavily subsidised wind and solar (see above). The relationship is so stark, why even a blind man, open to reality, will readily see it. However, no amount of evidence appears to register with those who pretend to govern … Continue reading It’s Subsidised Wind & Solar or Meaningful Well-Paid Jobs: But You Can’t Have Both
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