Sentences with phrase «heavily subsidized»

Historically flood insurance has been heavily subsidized by the United States federal government, however in the recent home price recovery some low lying areas in Florida have not recovered as quickly as the rest of the market due in part to dramatically increasing flood insurance premiums.

Instead, WellTower will focus on selling down the skilled nursing properties, a line of business heavily subsidized by Medicare.

In October, FINRA issued an investor warning about non-traded REITs, saying that these investments can be heavily subsidized by borrowed funds, early redemption is often limited, and fees can be high.

«While you live in this property, you will be living either for free or heavily subsidized by renters,» Taber says.

The socialist South American nation was the only country to land in the triple - digits, in part due to its heavily subsidized electricity prices.

The courtroom is heavily subsidized by the state and meaningful support for CDR implies that it too warrants meaningful financial support;

Otherwise, the alternative will be the heavily subsidized model of renewable energy now provoking a crisis in Europe.

It seems that in those last two categories I disturb the fragile orthodoxy of believers in catastrophic anthropogenic global warming (CAGW) and «green» (i.e. heavily subsidized) energy.

The vital production tax credit (PTC) that gives the wind industry a fighting chance to compete with the heavily subsidized oil, natural gas and coal industries may not be extended this year by a gridlocked Congress.

Yes, green energy works when heavily subsidized by the taxpayer.

On business channel Monday night they said US solar companies are being killed by heavily subsidized Chinese imports of solar produxts that are being sold under cost of production - not sure how true this is - that is one reason why a company like first solar FSLR has stock that is crashing, Although this may be good for the consumer to have cheap panels manufactured in China it may not be the best for the health of US solar industry and for the emphasis on greeb jobs abd technologies in the US

They have to be treated as an integral part of the transportation system and funded like other transportation systems; in a study of Montreal, (PDF here) they found that 33 % of the users were diverted from the transit system, which is great in cities where the subways and buses are overcrowded and heavily subsidized.

This is being encouraged by the blue New England state governments and the utilities, which are finding them increasingly uneconomic to operate because of heavily subsidized wind sources.

The technologies you advocate are EXTREMELY uncompetitive and even if heavily subsidized could barely slow down the US GHG emission growth and much less impact global GHG levels.

After all, nuclear energy is struggling against cheap natural gas and heavily subsidized renewables.

In the U.S., solar and wind are far more heavily subsidized than nuclear.

The actual reason was a concerted marketing campaign by the auto manufacturers to steer buyers toward the 11 mpg vehicle due to the immense profit margins of the lower - cost, lower - manufacturing - standards, heavily subsidized 11 mpg units.

They derive about 25 % of there electricity from renewables that are heavily subsidized.

To reach these goals, biofuels production is heavily subsidized at many levels on both continents, supporting a burgeoning global industry.

Because of broad European skepticism about fracking, there is no gas miracle in the EU, while the abundance of heavily subsidized renewables has caused overachievement of the CO2 target.

Since 1990, the EU has heavily subsidized solar and wind energy at a cost of more than $ 20 billion annually.

By contrast, solar and wind have been heavily subsidized for over a decade — and Attorney General Madigan strongly supports those subsidies.

And wind and solar energy are already heavily subsidized, with federal, state and ratepayer subsidies picking up 50 % or more of their real installed cost in many cases.

Wind facilities are heavily subsidized by U.S. taxpayers through the Wind Production Tax Credit, making it an increasingly attractive alternative for utilities.

It would simply result in substituting much more expensive, unreliable, and heavily subsidized renewables for inexpensive, reliable fossil fuels.

Heavily subsidized, sporadic, unreliable wind and solar combined provide less than 3 % of all U.S. energy.

I agree that renewable energy is not up to the challenge of changing the infrastructure that was built with cheap and now heavily subsidized conventional oil.

Suggesting that we can abandon these vital 94 % energy sources — in favor of new variations on antique technologies that Mr. Obama promotes as energy of «the future» — ignores the fact that these politically correct sources are expensive, intermittent, heavily subsidized and wholly dependent on fossil fuels.

The Republican opposition to this is heavily subsidized by fossil fuel money for campaigns in their various states.

OffshoreWIND.biz The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has released its Global Wind Report: Annual Market Update, showing a maturing industry successfully competing in the marketplace, even against heavily subsidized traditional power generation technologies.

Offgrid Nigeria Wind power is doing just fine and competing magnificently against other heavily subsidized power sources, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has said.

25 April Brussels — The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) released its Global Wind Report: Annual Market Update today, showing a maturing industry successfully competing in the marketplace, even against heavily subsidized traditional power generation technologies.

«Wind power is now successfully competing with heavily subsidized incumbents across the globe, building new industries, creating hundreds of thousands of jobs and leading the...

Both have garnered headlines for their aggressive and heavily subsidized pushes to expand wind and solar power generation.

Wind is the most heavily subsidized by taxpayers.

[W] ith the inability of the Connecticut House to pass a bill that would have allowed the state's only nuclear power plant, Millstone, to compete on equal footing with cheap natural gas and heavily subsidized renewables earlier this month, Connecticut is now in danger of losing its largest source of zero - carbon energy.

And hemp is much more environmentally sound than existing alternatives that are heavily subsidized.

Malawi then started a program that heavily subsidized fertilizer and instituted smaller subsidies for seeds.

Global warming is almost surely contributing to drought and heat in ways that exacerbate fire risk, but the prime driver of losses in these recent fires is a heavily subsidized burst of development in zones of implicit fire danger.

Keystone, for one, would pump only 830,000 barrels of oil from tar sands a day, about a third of the 2.3 million barrels of oil Canada already sends us, and a mere fraction of our heavily subsidized 19 - million - barrel - a-day habit.

In Japan, fisheries officials and those making a living from the heavily subsidized whale harvest often make the same point, criticizing Western consumers for decrying blood in the water when they are divorced utterly from the bloody killing floors that produce their plastic - wrapped pork chops and ground beef.

I've written before about the ways homeownership in the United States is heavily subsidized by the federal government, at the expense of current and future taxpayers:

Spays and neuters are not profitable and non-profit clinics are heavily subsidized.

Both public and for - profit colleges are heavily subsidized but for - profit schools generate most of these subsidies through Pell Grants and student loans.

People do silly things like refuse to take interest free (or heavily subsidized) loans from their parents because of things like «pride», even though taking a loan like that can potentially save them thousands in interest.

Unlike retirement homes, most nursing homes are heavily subsidized by the government — but you still have to pay part of the costs yourself, and in some cases having more money can help you afford extras like a private room.

@TTT the health support here is heavily subsidized by the government via taxes, so $ 10K in coverage will be enough to cover all costs in vast majority if not all health issues.

They all strike me as being heavily subsidized and unsustainable long - term, though I'd be curious to find out otherwise.

She pointed out that ebook prices get heavily subsidized — that she believed Amazon was even taking a loss on some ebooks.

The merits of the book and the publisher notwithstanding, it's only flourished because up here, we're in a heavily subsidized publishing environment with a clique that prefers to annoint the obscure and ignore what is written for entertainment.