Enough is Enough: Time to Pull the Plug on Endless Wind & Solar Subsidies

Enough is Enough: Time to Pull the Plug on Endless Wind & Solar Subsidies

• No subsidies. No wind and solar industries. It’s that simple.

"Back in 1983 the American Wind Industry Association claimed that solar and wind would be “competitive and self-supporting on a national level by the end of the decade if assisted by tax credits and augmented by federally sponsored R&D”. 

That was 36 years ago. 

...Now, as then, claims from renewable energy rent seekers 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.

With their 40th birthdays approaching, the wind and solar ‘industries’ are a pair of perpetual infants who – like Peter Pan – are determined to never grow up...Read all.