And since you brought up the subsidies, I'll tell you the dirty secret on why my solar works really well for me (provides 80% of my power throughout the year, for an all-electric home) but doesn't for the grid. And why my decentralized solar saves me money even though I like the physical science of hydrocarbons better.
And that's because of the word "decentralized". In other words, solar power is power I can produce on my own. We can't count on the regulators of other energy to make it efficient, but I can count on God providing the sunlight, and I can count on me to be a good steward to optimize how that sunlight is utilized.
That's not the case with the bureaucrats who get in the way of how oil and natural gas and coal are drilled/mined, and how it's transported, and how oil is refined into gasoline or how coal is burned to produce power, and how it's transported some more, or how gas is stored nearby at the gas station, and how power or natural gas is delivered to your house or how gasoline is dispensed at the pump at the gas station. That's way too many layers of selfish regulators getting in the way of how the free market can provide the energy from the ground to us.
The word "decentralized" in front of solar removes all of that for me. That's the only reason why it's cheaper for me. That would not be the case with solar on the grid. We'd still have too many regulators messing it up, even if solar was as good as hydrocarbons (which it's not).
That’s the real plus — independence and self-determination. (That’s the thing the watermelon (green outside, red inside) net zero central planners hate.)