Sentences with phrase «receive 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.

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.

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.

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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.

The world's biggest and most profitable fossil fuel companies are receiving huge and rising subsidies from US taxpayers, a practice slammed as absurd by a presidential candidate given the threat of climate change.