Sentences with phrase «other biofuel subsidies»

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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.

WHEREAS, the federal government and many individual states currently provide direct subsidies in the form of tax credits, rebates, and other incentives to owners of alternative - fueled vehicles, including electric, natural gas, biofuel, propane clean diesel and, in some instances, supporting fueling infrastructure; and

Moreover, biofuel mandates and subsidies tend to push land out of other carbon - sequestering uses including food production.

According to the IEA, global fossil fuel consumption subsidies are over twice as large as subsidies for renewable energy in 2015, which amounted to $ 150 billion globally — $ 120 billion for non-hydro renewables for power generation and about $ 30 billion for renewables in other sectors, primarily biofuels.

We have also opposed subsidies for natural gas vehicles and other biofuels for these same reasons,» the Koch letter reads.

Biofuel subsidies were that urgent green stupidity beyond any other so far.

They recommend, among other things, that governments rethink biofuels policies, especially the subsidies and mandates for biofuels from crops that rely on the dedicated use of land.

(For fossil fuels, tax assessed preferably at the mine or well, to reduce paperwork and make enforcement efficient (as opposed to the exhaust pipe)-- but then a compensating credit for fossil C used in materials unlikely to be oxidized, etc, with compensating tariff / subsidy for trade between nations with differing policies; attempt at least approximate CO2eq tax for other sources so as to not distort the market (don't encourage too much deforestation for biofuels, don't forget about cement production, don't forget about cows, etc.)-RRB-.

In contrast to the $ 500 billion in fossil fuel supports in 2010, renewable energy received just $ 66 billion in subsidies — two thirds for electricity generation from wind, biomass, and other sources, and one third for biofuels.