Conservatives should embrace a carbon tax (a much less costly means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions) in return for elimination of EPA regulatory authority over greenhouse gas emissions, abolition
of green energy subsidies and regulatory mandates, and offsetting tax cuts to provide for revenue neutrality.
A
botched green energy subsidy scheme will cost U.K. taxpayers more than $ 1.4 billion, or more than 45 times its initial cost projections, according to a whistleblower.
The Spanish Wind Energy Association admitted Tuesday the country did not install any wind power last year after Spain effectively eliminated
costly green energy subsidies in 2014.
Yet the IPCC's clear verdict regarding the climate - political futility
of green energy subsidies that run simultaneously to emissions trading does not appear in the German [government's] summary.
Pay for
the green energy subsidies by taxing IMPORTED oil, on which we are dangerously dependent.
The protracted political battle and the fact that it took this long for the project to officially end speak less about the viability of Cape Wind and more about the damage caused by
green energy subsidies.
Green energy fact: if we put
all green energy subsidies together in one - dollar bills and burn them, we could generate more electricity than has been produced by subsidized green energy
Meyer says that he does not think a focused federal climate policy such as a carbon pricing is strictly necessary, but he does see it as a vast improvement over the stew of command - and - control regulations,
green energy subsidies, and Solyndras that we're getting now.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations, permitting requirements,
green energy subsidies and mandates, and of course low - priced natural gas have contributed to coal and nuclear plants being closed down.
UK Pledges To Ax
Green Energy Subsidies Daily Caller Andrew Follett 15 October 2015 The United Kingdom is pledging to end all green energy subsidies by the mid-2020s.