Sentences with phrase «subsidized by fossil fuel»

The Republican opposition to this is heavily subsidized by fossil fuel money for campaigns in their various states.

Alternative energy is subsidized by fossil fuel!

Currently all alternative energy system construction is subsidized by fossil fuel inputs.

Since most biofuels have EROI's of less than 3:1 they must be subsidized by fossil fuels to be useful.

Not exact matches

By taxing fossil fuels and subsidizing renewables, governments can tilt the playing field toward a brighter future.

Is the «business as usual» approach — subsidizing fossil - fuel supply and nuclear energy and large hydro projects, maintaining low energy prices to consumers by keeping environmental and political costs «external,» propping up oil supply by every available means — part of the solution or part of the problem?

Third, please introduce the notion of «radical hope» by daring to speak of the possibility and necessity of a much more ethical economy that does not rely on fossil fuels (national or foreign), rampant consumerism (and unrestrained waste production), profitable militarism, (subsidized) competition, the commodification of life, the financialization of the globe, the relentless destruction of the environment, the exploitative division of labor at home and abroad, siege consciousness, or the elimination of dissent.

By subsidizing fossil fuels here, along with providing subsidies for highways, spreading our communities out ever more widely in sprawling suburbs, and discouraging rapid transit development almost everywhere the U.S. has made sure that oil producers would be enriched around the world for as long as the pumps were working.

With alternative energy technological development subsidized by the military, a political mitigation strategy may become less dependent on an approach that requires unpopular legislation or regulation for the civilian sector to transition from fossil fuels to alternatives over coming decades.

I know you say the subsidy argument made by conservatives is specious (my word, not yours), but the reality is that renewables are being subsidized in ways that fossil fuels never were.

As fossil fuels have plunged in price, the cost of subsidizing «green» energy per unit of such energy has increased enormously since the cost differential has greatly increased, and this will have to be subsidized by someone — usually primarily at the expense of less affluent ratepayers — in one way or another.

Then there's multiple huge cottage industries for alternatives to fossil fuels and other saleable mitigation strategies often subsidized by taxpayer dollars.

The ad is part of the ongoing campaign by ExxonHatesYourChildren.com that tries to educate the public about how taxpayers subsidize fossil fuel companies like Exxon.

As can be seen by the figure, solar is being subsidized by over 1200 times more than coal and oil and natural gas electricity production, and wind is being subsidized over 80 times more than the more conventional fossil fuels on a unit of production basis.

It's an easy online request that could deliver a fatal blow to fossil fuel companies that are subsidized by the UK government.

Fact — If the money being used to subsidize wind power was spent on conservation, insulation, energy efficient lighting and heating equipment, and fuel efficient vehicles, the reductions in fossil fuel use would be many times greater than the benefits provided by wind power.

At a time of mounting public concern about climate change driven by the burning of fossil fuels, the world fossil fuel industry is still being subsidized by taxpayers at more than $ 210 billion per year.

In a secret document seen by the Guardian, a large slice of billions of euros of funds that are supposed to be devoted to research and development into renewables such as solar and wave power are likely to be diverted instead to subsidizing the development of the well - established fossil fuel.»

And while the President lectures us about our sins against the planet, his EPA and other agencies embark on the project to impose penance on us by forcing the closure of coal and other fossil fuel power plants, blocking pipelines, bankrupting the coal mining industry, subsidizing intermittent power sources that can't possibly run a fully operational electrical grid at reasonable cost, and multiplying our cost of electricity by an order of magnitude or so.