«The government must be up front about the support it is giving to nuclear and
not hide subsidies in a one - size - fits - all design for long - term energy contracts,» Mr Yeo added.
Not exact matches
For decades, many nations have provided substantial, sometimes
hidden,
subsidies to artificial feeding, while
not funding breastfeeding support.
«In a free - market economy, it makes sense to a lot of people when you say that
not having a green tax is a
hidden subsidy, and that's something that at least resonates among the more conservative economists,» Mena - Carrasco said.
The question of
hidden, and
not so
hidden,
subsidies for oil, as well as coal, keeps coming up in environmental debates.
The author apparently assumes naively that the huge federal
subsidies for wind facilities (which merely shift cost from «wind farm» owners to taxpayers and electric customers and
hide them in tax bills and monthly electric bills) are
not a part of the true costs.
(While sustainably generated electricity is sold at a higher price than fossil fuel generated electricity — and this is a form of
subsidy — it does
not receive the numerous
hidden subsidies that fossil fuel power gets.)
We may
not know with total certainty the usefulness of any renewable energy technologies until the
hidden fossil fuel energy
subsidies are finally removed.