Tag: renewables subsidies

Americans Like Wind and Solar in Theory, Dislike Them in Practice, Study Reveals

A recent report by the Brookings Institution claims that “the American public overwhelmingly favors renewable power.” While this may be true in theory, when Americans experience the reality of it, they don’t seem to like it much at all. Brookings, which sees local resistance as an impediment to overcome, concedes that “even though people like…


Renewables Subsidies and the Institutionalization of Irresponsibility

Commentary The joy of spending huge amounts of tax dollars—Other People’s Money—is a truth obvious and eternal, but the corrupting effects of a systemwide shift toward such subventions are more subtle, and vastly more destructive. That is a central implication of the massive policy favoritism now directed toward unconventional electricity—hugely expensive, unreliable, and environmentally destructive—yielding such utterly perverse…