Sentences with phrase «of subsidies»

The Abbott government's efforts to wind back some of the the subsidies are blocked either by a recalcitrant Senate or by long - term contracts entered into by the previous government.

However, as even small energy storage systems typically double the cost of a residential PV system, the role of subsidies and / or better valuation of the services that energy storage provides will continue to be essential to support deployment.

It's because of subsidies and money fiddles; and because those things suck and will have to be massively supplemented by the products of... Big Oil!

Across the country state logging agencies do not return profits and receive more than tens of millions of dollars worth of subsidies from state treasuries every year (see The Australia Institute 2016 report, Barking up the wrong trees: Forest Products Commission (FPC) and the performance of its native forestry).

Some critics say, «we should level the playing field and get rid of all subsidies,» but they know that in that case, the many decades of subsidies to non-renewables would give those sources a huge market advantage.

In addition to his opposition to meaningful action to reduce global warming pollution, Paul Ryan's budget called for «drastic cuts in federal spending on energy research and development and for the outright elimination of subsidies and tax breaks for wind, solar power and other alternative energy technologies.»

Most of the subsidies are given to the large - scale, industrial sector of the fishing industry.

Consider just one example: the hundreds of thousands of rare birds and endangered bats slaughtered in the US every year by the wind farms that Hillary Clinton applauds (and will no doubt go on subsidising) and that Donald Trump loathes (and will no doubt starve of subsidies and cause to become as extinct as the Dodo).

Your report is wise to say «more than» as to what the total amount of subsidies — but the economic tipping point for many of the US fields is a direct result of subsidies.

The poorest people receive very little of the subsidies provided for gasoline and LPG.

$ 630B divided by that many watt - hours equals 0.63 cents of subsidies per KwH.

Indeed, it could prosper without subsidies, given a removal of subsidies surrounding other forms of energy.

Each year the world's taxpayers provide an estimated $ 700 billion of subsidies for environmentally destructive activities, such as fossil fuel burning, overpumping aquifers, clearcutting forests, and overfishing.

Its future growth rate will depend largely on the level of subsidies, since these are the primary drivers of wind investment.

If you truly want to discuss other subsidies — although the relevance to this site may be questionable — I suspect Jim2 and others like him (which includes moi) would be more than happy to give you a digital eyeful of what they think of subsidies and how that relates to free market principles.

A study by the U.K. Green Party, Aviation's Economic Downside, describes the extent of subsidies to the U.K. airline industry.

The REF argues that while some may argue that expansion of the wind farm network would lead to more technological developments making their output more controllable there is in fact no commercial benefit to doing so, because of the subsidies wind farms receive.

First, Sens. John Kerry, Lindsey Graham, and Joseph Lieberman released the framework for the bill they're working on, which basically amounts to the bill the House and the Senate Environment committee passed plus a thick layer of subsidies for nuclear power and offshore drilling meant to attract some Republican votes.

McGuinty ceded that his proposals to implement renewables were poorly planned and managed; renewable projects were taken over by deep pocketed oil companies that would foist them on people in notably contentious locations giving wind a bad name, high FITs that did not adjust to market forces over the long term, no comprehensive agreement with neighbours for better power sharing agreements, no power storage strategy, no coordinated conservation or efficiency plan that included distributed generation, CHP, microCHP, automated demand response management, and worst of all there was no options analysis of subsidies to various producers.

Off - topic but relevant... «Trougher» Yeo was on telly yesterday - interviewed on the usual subject of the government bashing the energy companies over the price of their tariffs (not ONE mention of the in - built cost of the subsidies / feed - in tariffs to «renewables» - quel surpris)..

In a given economy, the basic calculation of subsidies for a product is:

Granted, a variety of «subsidies» were used to stimulate the growth of its deployment, but Wright's law would appear to work regardless of subsidies (or not) and solar is just about over the hump by now.

The virtuous role of government funding in R&D is to be contrast with the litany of failure in recent times of subsidies in support of the premature rollout of technologies that are uneconomic and / or immature.

According to Lomborg, the incredibly expensive system of subsidies has been environmentally irrelevant, even if one accepts the claims of the advocates of the theory of manmade climate change:

Continued support for wind, solar and other forms of green energy like biofuel «represents total madness» as these energy systems don't justify the massive costs of the subsidies required to support them.

While such subsidies account for the majority of subsidies to fossil fuels, there are numerous others that are not captured by the price - gap approach.

Small - scale and local wind generator companies have received 10 % of all subsidies.

2 Eleven companies have received 90 % of those subsidies.

He also called for the removal of subsidies that increase the use of fossil fuels.

The cost of subsidies and tax breaks given to the wind - farm owners are also passed on to you.

Get rid of the subsidies!!!!!

There were no comments supporting any subsidies; suspect that most skeptics would support the elimination of all subsidies.

in industrial countries, the withdrawal of subsidies from fossil fuels and the establishment of equivalent subsidies for clean energy sources;

Instead, while we prepare indictments that we know will be futile, let's get rid of their subsidies and tax breaks.

My fear is candidates turned president will buckle like all those before them, and the medicine for our energy, environment, and climate woes, whatever it is, will be tossed in favor of some quack cure, or rather a whole bevvy of subsidies and other favorites that do not confront all of us with the need to changes technologies, adjust how we live and reformat our expectations.

Instead we end up with a shifting array of subsidies, penalties, and enough quicksand to keep private investors wary of moving in any one direction very far.

The report renews questions about the extent and impact of subsidies propping up Europe's bloated fishing fleets.

IMO none of these subsidies makes sense in the era of global warming.

Venezuela's economy was almost entirely dependent on oil exports and unsustainable levels of subsidies to consumers, and when the oil market crashed so did everything else, and they haven't really recovered.

Compromise would be essential, and a willingness to look at the costs and benefits of subsidies in «clean tech» as well as the fossil arena and nuclear power.

They involve billions of dollars of subsidies of fossil fuel industries, of airport expansion and of road building, regulations which favour dirty technologies over clearn ones, granting planning permission for coal fire stations but refusing it for wind turbines, etc..

As much as the various embargoes, supply crunches and other problems have kcost us as a nation., no one wants to pay any of his / her own money NOT to import oil, as evidenced by the beating back of all attempts tax energy or oil in favor of subsidies right and left.

We must ADD IN the ending of subsidies — which promote consumption and primarily benefit the rich — details in my post ► https://1wow.org/triggers/fossil-fuel-subsidies/

In other words, if you agree that there is lots of energy at higher prices than those consistent with Hummers in every garage, and if you agree that political manipulation in almost every country (including the US) to keep prices down is hurting us more and more every day, and you note from ample literature, demonstrations, and at least a dozen European countries where energy use used both more efficiently and more carefully than in the US, you have to conclude that the forecasts of continued rapid growth in demand will be cut off at the pass, so to speak, by higher prices, drying up of subsidies, and above all more efficient and more careful energy use, fewer miles run and all that.

That would avoid the economic inefficiency of subsidies — and the tax or deficit burden — while producing an optimal reduction curve without adding an artificial economic penalty for drivers.

He's terrible on trade, supporting maintenance of the tariff on imported Brazilian ethanol made from sugarcane, and has pushed for a dramatic expansion of the subsidies for ethanol production in this country.

You are correct up to a point, Bob Dole the former make believe Republican and the lobbies are responsible for stealing our tax dollars in the form of subsidies and forcing us to use an inferior product that actually costs more due to the poor mileage, robs performance from the engine, creates engine and fuel system problems and is environmentally worse.

In other words, we make decisions every day as human beings about where to live, what kind of building codes, what kinds of subsidies for coastal insurance, and that's where there's no debate about the anthropogenic influence.

By 2020, it'll be cheaper than the cost of transmission — regardless of any subsidies.

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