With
world oil subsidies in the billions, and completely unsustainable, it is rather strange to suggest wind turbines «can not survive without subsidies».
Not exact matches
But thanks to the
subsidy they get from Canada, refineries in Cushing often enjoy refinery margins, or crack spreads as they're known in the industry, that have been as much as five times what refineries on the Gulf Coast, which have to pay full
world oil prices for their feedstock, operate with.
Energy stocks are subject to the
world economic climate and demand for
oil, unless you're talking alternative - energy stocks, which are subject to political risk regarding their
subsidies and technological risk regarding whether or not their technologies pan out.
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.
If
oil lost its
subsidies, and solar power and similar options got them, would the
world be better off?
As Lester Brown says in Plan B 4.0: A
world facing economically disruptive climate change can no longer justify
subsidies to expand the burning of coal and
oil.
As
oil prices have climbed, a number of countries have greatly reduced or eliminated
subsidies that held fuel prices well below
world market prices because of the heavy fiscal cost.
Renewable Energy
World For at least the last 40 years, since the
oil shocks in the 1970s, dealing with fossil fuel
subsidies has been on the international agenda.
Also, despite
oil companies being the largest businesses in the
world they still accept
subsidies from the government... much more than wind turbine
subsidies.
A new report by
Oil Change International identifies billions of dollars in
subsidies for fossil fuel exploration from the
world's wealthiest countries.
Iran provides a classic example of extreme
subsidies when it prices
oil for internal use at one tenth the
world price, strongly encouraging car ownership and gas consumption.
As
oil prices have climbed, a number of countries that held fuel prices well below
world market prices have greatly reduced or eliminated their motor fuel
subsidies because of the heavy fiscal cost.
via:: BBC News
Oil Arctic Could Contain 400 Billion Barrels of
Oil World Oil Demand Growth to Outpace Non-Opec Supply Growth: IEA Hidden
Oil Subsidies: We Need to END Them
After several years of using
oil money to support wheat prices at five times the
world market level, the government was forced to face fiscal reality and cut the
subsidies.