Just goes to prove what the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan said lo these many years ago, "If you subsidize something, you get more of it."
Get back to me when they don't need subsidies to compete.
House Speaker Ryan's budget bill, signed by Obama before his vacation, extended the renewable tax credits for 5 years. It was a trade-off. Oil exports for renewable tax credits. The oil industry won and the renewables won.
Coal subsidies are falling. Each year coal emissions(subsidy) are being reduced and Obama announced this past week that the dirt cheap coal leases on federal lands(subsidy) are going to be re-examined