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![]() ![]() Section 4: President & Congress Subject: Windmills Msg# 1095283
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When I scan the sources, I've seen lefty publishers like Rolling Stones & HuffPost as contrasted with Heritage Foundation & American Thinker on the right. Plenty of diversity of views. Some better than others.
YES electrification efforts dating from the 1930's -- and there's also subsidies for extending internet and mobile services to rural areas. Parallel with those rural electrification efforts which are still around. Purpose is to fill in the gaps, instead of either cleaner or cheaper energy. Also there's plenty of versions of how the accounting practices may be viewed or called subsidies. You many have heard of depletion allowances for mining & minerals, which compares with depreciation allowances for building and eqmt. Really gets down into the weeds for divergent views of what belongs in or out of the subsidies category The central point seems -- the size of bucks that Uncle Sam subsidizes wind turbines is pretty large, VS the amounts of power being produced is relatively small. The hope is that as the industry matures past the start up & development phases that larger amounts of power will be produced and that subsidies can be reduced & phased out. Would be some leveling of the playing field when this occurs. Another issue -- groups protecting the interests of the poor have been expressing concerns over the costs of power driven up by renewables, will be squeezing the poor folks budgets. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: Subsidies? Have you forgotten the government subsidizing electrical power to rural communities beginning around 1935? |