Sentences with phrase «huge subsidies»

Certainly once it has obtained a critical mass, renewables should not need any help but expecting renewables to expand without assistance while fossil fuels receive huge subsidies is ridiculous.

I can not imagine why they would want to touch such a hair - brained scheme without promises of huge subsidies.

If this is done, not only will India save on huge subsidies given on kerosene, but emissions polluting the atmosphere will also be eliminated.

Governments threw taxpayers money at it willy nilly in huge subsidies.

• Size of the current and historical R&D budget, both public and private, is not the only criterion — huge amounts have been spent on solar panel (photovoltaic, or PV) R&D over the decades, and PVs still are not able to compete with fossil fuels or nuclear power without huge subsidies.

To add insult to injury, another amendment on «waste gases» means further handouts to the steel sector, another of the industries that has received huge subsidies from emissions trading.

The fact that «only» 30 % of the capital costs of renewable energy world wide are subsidised is no argument that renewable energy doesn't enjoy huge subsidies.

Yet, Mercedes said today if huge subsidy pricing were taken away that EV sales would collapse.

Suckers in government (including most notably the federal government, and the states of Nevada and California) who have lavished huge subsidies based the dubious environmental benefits of electric vehicles.

The government has undertaken huge subsidy of over $ 1bn spent in 2015 on kerosene subsidy.»

«In many parts of the world, governments already provide huge subsidies to the agriculture industry; if we are paying people to be farmers, part of that payment — indeed, part of the job of a farmer — needs to be protecting the countryside as well as farming it,» he said.

Those bills would have made huge subsidies available for CCS and would have set standards requiring its use on the new coal plants that Peabody would like to see built.

Even in Germany, home of the Energiewende (energy transformation) which has poured huge subsidies into wind and solar power, 38 % of non-fossil fuel consumption comes from the stuff.

If she believes continuing to dispense seven - figure checks to some of this country's richest farmers and granting huge subsidies to only a handful of crops will accomplish that, she certainly has a strange conception of «promotion.»

Yet we keep throwing huge subsidies at corn; The Environmental Working Group pegs U.S. corn subsidies from 1995 to 2009 at us $ 73 billion, or about $ 5 billion per year.

I'm personally more worried about badly secured and aging stockpiles of nuclear warheads than about active nuclear power plants, but an economic argument can be made about these plants (many need huge subsidies, cost more than planned, etc).

In October 2017, Gardiner became involved in the issue of the Boeing complaint to the US Department of Commerce which claimed that Bombardier Aerospace was «dumping» aircraft in the US, selling them below the cost of production, thanks to huge subsidies from Canadian governments.

To New Jersey folks, that's a huge subsidy - the state collects around $ 2.5 billion in corporate taxes each year, so they're offering Amazon about 14 percent of the taxes paid by other businesses for the next two decades.

The only reason they're selling now is the huge subsidies... when they pull back we'll see a consolidation in the industry and a market cap of 10 % EV.

There were huge subsidies to vendors from the govt, and if your preferred lot was geothermal you weren't allowed to switch it to gas.

Ending the huge subsidies to both the mining and housing industry is favoured according to opinion polls about 75 % of the population, but the word from politicians is «don't mention the subsides».

Interestingly, the right wing never challenges the huge subsidies that taxpayers already provide private radio and TV.

Strictly speaking, the liberalization of the agricultural sector in the North should have resulted in an end to the huge subsidies paid to the European farmers.

«In addition, a sensible interest rate should be introduced on student loans, set at the current government cost of borrowing, to rectify the huge subsidy that the government currently pays.»

He's right but as Fiona Bruce argued in the debate the light needs to be shone brightly on the huge subsidy that the union movement receives from local and national taxpayers.

It would save the taxpayer a considerable sum of money and it would end a huge subsidy to a newspaper with a strong left - liberal bias.

«It misses many of the messy realities of modern whaling, such as the huge subsidy that Japan gives its whalers.»

It must be pointed out that even with the huge subsidies the Recovery Act and climate bill include for CCS, much of that additional development cost will be transferred to us, the consumers.

However, and unfortunately, that's not as simple as is being made out as buyers will be required to subscribe to data services from EMOBILE to avail of the huge subsidy.

In the name of satisfying voters, huge subsidies for electricity for agricultural water pumping have led to to rapid depletion of groundwater, thus leading to the need for more powerful water pumps, and thus the need for more electricity — a vicious cycle.

In fact, the companies that have received huge subsidies have been «green» energy scams like Solyndra, First Solar and Fisker, who had political connections with the White House and allow billions of taxpayer money to be wasted through crony capitalism.

International Monetary Fund gives figures for the huge subsidies going to the Australian fossil fuel industries.

talk about giving the monkeys they keys to the banana plantation... essentially, the whole carbon offset business will become a huge subsidy to farmers, a group already coddled and advantaged beyond belief.

The huge tracts of land required for solar thermal are currently being granted tax - free status, a huge subsidy that absolutely no one is including in the costs.

Both large agricultural firms and wealthy, leftist political donors, such as the likes of Gore and Soros, need the huge subsidies to make their biofuel investments profitable.