When Texas keeps discovering billions of barrels of fossil fuels to last hundreds of years, those subsidies ought to be GONE. If the wind and solar generators can make it on their own, fine, but no more handouts.
Change to “....creates uncertainty for inept companies unable to make a profit without government support because they are crony Capitalism Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch supporters.”
There, fixed.
If there were any certainty to wind and solar power in the first place, government involvement would be irrelevant.
It’s past time to stop making us pay for killing millions of eagles and other birds. And stop preventing us from filling in puddles in our driveways because it might inconvenience a frog.
Why?
Either it works or it doesn’t. Trump has no control over that.
If states want to promote wind and solar, they can do so however don’t use my tax dollars. Neither wind nor solar can return their investment in dollars to reduce energy requirements.
Let me put it in my usual verbiage.
#### solar and wind power.
If it was so great, billions would have been invested by Silicon Valley and others already.
That didn’t happen.
“...Trump’s victory creates uncertainty for wind and solar power...”
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Trump’s victory creates uncertainty for wind and solar power’s subsidies...
There...Fixed the title...
I’m all for renewable energy...
I just don’t want to subsidizing it with tax dollars...
If it is a viable energy source, it will stand on it own with capital investment...
Hey, Obama stopped the rising of the oceans, why can’t Trump stop the Wind & Sunshine?
/S
In the meantime, Atlanta Falcons 44 to Greenbay Packers 21, 4th quarter. Yeah buddy. Rise Up!
I saw where Wyoming recently passed a law that prevents the use of any renewable energy wind solar etc by utility companies. While you can argue the viability of renewable sources that doesn’t sound very free market to me.
It doesn’t change anything unless wind and solar energy can’t compete in a free market.
No subsidies. Make it pay or go away.
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Wind and solar power have no place where the power grid is in place.
I have used solar power in an off-grid location for 16 years, and it is a godsend there, but it makes no sense anywhere else.
Its a boondoggle.
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Here in CA, my energy provider, charges me tiered pricing for their product (electricity) I use. They charge me a “High usage Surcharge” penalty if I use too much. Geez, you’d think we were in an energy crisis.
Wind and solar power are unreliable and are rarely cost effective. They would have faced a bleak future even with Jill Stein as president.
A few facts about renewables:
The Republican Congress extended the PTC (Production Tax Credit) for wind generation. The wind PTC was retroactively applied to 2015 and extended through 2016, after which it will decline each year until it fully expires in 2020.
The industry fully knows it will be done, gone forever, and they are fine with that, because it’s already possible to generate utility-scale wind at a cost that is competitive with other forms of generation without the PTC. They are ready and able to operate without government subsidies.
Solar is different because it has not yet achieved anywhere near the cost efficiency of wind, and will follow a different curve. The Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for solar will remain at the current 30-percent rate through 2019, after which it will fall to 26 percent in 2020, 22 percent in 2021, and 10 percent in 2022. So it too is set to sunset (pun intended).
In return for these goodies, Congress in 2015 lifted the 40-year ban on crude oil exports that began with the 1970s Oil Embargo Crisis.