Sentences with phrase «subsidized fossil»

Third, the subsidies discourage investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy that compete with the subsidized fossil fuels.

Production tax credits can help the wind compete with highly subsidized fossil fuels.

Cheap, subsidized fossil fuels engendered bad habits.

Canada spends billions every year subsidizing the fossil fuel industry.

They talk about free markets while at the same time subsidizing fossil fuels.

Dear A Taxpayer: MUCH is wrong with subsidizing fossil fuels.

Thus, external costs in effect subsidize fossil - fuel power generation, either directly or via indirect effects on the society as a whole.

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?

Re # 17: Hans, so are you saying that because you can't envision other ways of doing these things, we should continue subsidizing the fossil fuel energy to do them?

For example, we should quit subsidizing fossil fuels and the infrastructure necessary to keep our suburbs sprawling endlessly across the landscape.

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.

Stop subsidizing fossil fuels.

- South East Green: U.S. Sending $ 6 Billion to Subsidize Fossil Fuel Projects Abroad.

I propose we begin implementing the viable technologies now, transfer some of the money that is being used to subsidize fossil fuel consumption into research for more technology, and begin the process of weaning our economy now while we still have oil reserves left.

Right now, in contrast, we are subsidizing fossil fuels to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars a year — while the greatest minds in science agree that we are destroying our planet.

Over a century's worth of subsidizing fossil energy sources — not to mention roads, vehicle development and manufacturing, and transmission / distribution infrastructure — have underwritten the steady development and improvement of conventional energy sources and embedded coal, oil, and natural gas as the favored national energy inputs.

Around the world, governments and public finance institutions continue to subsidize fossil fuels.

Still at official side - events at COP23 in Bonn, both the German G20 Sherpa Roeller and Environment Minister Hendricks stressed the importance of ending the perverse incentives through subsidizing fossil fuels, and introducing carbon pricing signals to foster the transformative change needed for reaching the Paris goals.

Finally, countries continue to spend hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidizing fossil fuels each year.

In this graphic, you can see that according to Oil Change International analysis, governments around the world are spending perhaps more than $ 1 trillion USD combined per year subsidizing the fossil fuel industry.

In the issue of finding resources to implement sustainable development, we see countries using the economic crisis as an excuse, while at the same time spending 100s of billions of dollars subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, the most profitable industry in the world.

The history of subsidizing fossil fuels (thereby altering their price) has made it difficult for renewable energy resources to compete.

That compares with the $ 557 billion that the International Energy Agency last month said was spent to subsidize fossil fuels in 2008.

What these concerns point to is that emissions trading simply subsidizes the fossil fuel industry.

«What's more socialist than American taxpayers subsidizing the fossil industry while they fleece our wallets?

However, if governments force the public to bear the external costs and even subsidize fossil fuels, carbon emissions are likely to continue to grow, with deleterious consequences for young people and for future generations.

Of course subsidizing fossil fuels is a horrible idea.

Now, they're concentrated, so obviously the Saudis and Venezuela and Iran are subsidizing fossil fuels more than the US and the Europeans are.

They talk about free markets even as they subsidize fossil fuels.

However, if governments force the public to bear the external costs and even subsidize fossil fuels, carbon emissions are likely to continue to grow, with deleterious consequences for young people and future generations.

Again, we need to take advantage of the falling prices for renewable energy and stop subsidizing fossil fuels.

Oh, and it also recommends that governments slash the $ 600 billion currently being used to subsidize fossil fuels, to be replaced with a «strong and predictable price on carbon.»

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.

Making this switch, particularly in large numbers, will send a powerful message to the government that the people want an alternate model, not one that subsidizes fossil fuel companies to the tune of # 1,000 per household per year, using taxpayers» money.

Taxpayer Money Subsidizing Fossil Fuel Exploration Must End.

The best things we can do to accelerate the switch over to clean energy is to stop subsidizing fossil fuels, create regulation that is more friendly to rooftop solar (net - metering, for example), and put a price on carbon emissions.

Not exact matches

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

Fossil fuel - based energy production needs to stop getting subsidized, and we need massive investment in and adoption of renewable energy sources.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed the new energy standard last year as a means of reducing the state's reliance on fossil fuels and focusing on renewable energies such as wind and solar as well as subsidize nuclear power.

Note that some will argue that fossil fuels are more heavily subsidized than green sources.

Globally, the fossil fuel industries are heavily subsidized.

Green energy is also subsidized, but there difference between the two is immense... globally, green energy subsidies are in the billions, while fossil fuel subsidies are in the trillions.

«Rather than subsidize the past, we should invest in the future — especially in communities that rely on fossil fuels,» Obama said.

The federal case demands sweeping changes in federal climate efforts and in government programs that subsidize or foster development of fossil fuels.

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.

Hopefully, the Senate will disregard the idea of a Cap and Trade and either through the current tax / tariff / subsidizing systems or a scaled fossil carbon usage tax, directly fund renewable implementation or replacement.

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

Alternative energy is subsidized by fossil fuel!

Even after decades of increasingly dire warnings, the US has still not passed comprehensive federal legislation to combat global warming; Canada has abandoned past pledges in order to exploit its emissions - heavy tar sands; China continues to depend on coal for its energy production; Indonesia's effort to stem widespread deforestation is facing stiff resistance from industry; Europe is mulling pulling back on its more ambitious cuts if other nations do not join it; northern nations are scrambling to exploit the melting Arctic for untapped oil and gas reserves; and fossil fuels continue to be subsidized worldwide to the tune of $ 400 billion.

A lot more money, flowing from the political favors of tax - payer subsidized renewable energy into the pockets of billionaires, plus getting politicians to impose new environmental rules on fossil fuels and nuclear to make them wildly more expensive and billionaire renewable interests more competitive.