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To: Prophet2520

LOL!
Last try.

Coal: Coal taxes + “business” taxes - subsidies= net
Solar: “Business taxes” - subsidies= net

There’s an obvious difference.


70 posted on 11/18/2014 9:45:25 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: mrsmith

Again you are ignoring things, making assumption and over simplifying. I’ll use the data YOU provided on total 2010 federal subsidies even though it is only a small part of the whole picture.

Coal total 1358 million
Electricity transmission (i.e. grid for coal) 971 million
Total = 2329 million
Solar = 1134 million = less than half

The revenue the Federal government gets from things the industry takes from federal land is not tax at all, it is only paying for what was take. But even if you use those figures as well it still doesn’t add up, even when you ignore all other factors which you have been.

I have no interest in beating this dead horse further. If you want to prove your case show me all federal and state money spent in support of the power grid and the fuels it uses since its inception, don’t forget a portion of things like rail road subsidies which the coal depends on. Then compare that to total solar expenditure since inception. I’ll even accept leaving out the scientific advances that solar research has led to for other areas, vs. coal’s simplistic technology.


79 posted on 11/18/2014 10:52:59 AM PST by Prophet2520
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