You’re welcome. Citing Wikipedia, thinkprogress, etc is defeating one’s own argument.
You ignore the STATE and federal taxes coal pays which solar doesn’t.
If you want to try to make the case that state subsidies for coal are or ever were of a par with the solar subsidies and mandates of today the effort would be rewarding.
Historically, the choice was between ‘no electricity’ and subsidies. In the last fifty years or so electricity has been produced and delivered by mostly quasi-government utilities. Yes, utilities are fascist! That system seems to work best in this rare instance.
But of course solar PV use depends greatly upon the subsidized power grid so that subsidy must be counted as a subsidy for PV too...
“You ignore the STATE and federal taxes coal pays which solar doesn’t.”
Solar does pay taxes when it is a power production business making profits like coal.
“Historically, the choice was between ‘no electricity’ and subsidies.”
I don’t agree with that socialist viewpoint.
“But of course solar PV use depends greatly upon the subsidized power grid so that subsidy must be counted as a subsidy for PV too...”
Only the grid tied ones. there are boatloads of off-grid systems, and it is too bad there are not more.