GlobalWarming.org » David Kreutzer http://www.globalwarming.org Climate Change News & Analysis Fri, 08 Feb 2013 23:02:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Will the Left Trumpet the New “Green Vacations” That Their Subsidies Create?http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/03/02/will-the-left-trumpet-the-new-green-vacations-that-their-subsidies-create/ http://www.globalwarming.org/2012/03/02/will-the-left-trumpet-the-new-green-vacations-that-their-subsidies-create/#comments Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:53:55 +0000 David Kreutzer http://www.globalwarming.org/?p=13318

GM suspends Volt production until April.

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Want wind to get subsidies just like oil does?  Then, cut the PTC by 99.9%.  Wind’s subsidy is 40% of the wholesale cost.  This would work out to $50 per barrel in the oil industry.  Instead oil gets 5 cents.

Of course the best deal would be to cut them both to zero.

For the details, see my blog today at The Foundry.

On another point: AWEA and its apologists have fallen back on the “we need certainty” argument.  Well here is some certainty: The subsidy will be zero for all time.

David W. Kreutzer, Ph.D. is a Research Fellow in Energy Economics and Climate Change at the Heritage Foundation.

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