Comments on: Wind Farms Add Nearly $6B, 20K Jobs to Illinois Economy http://cleantechnica.com/2012/07/20/wind-farms-add-nearly-6b-20k-jobs-to-illinois-economy/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 03:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2012/07/20/wind-farms-add-nearly-6b-20k-jobs-to-illinois-economy/#comment-127641 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:33:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=40490#comment-127641 right now, we have huge externalities costing the public hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions of dollars,… not accounted for in the price of coal and natural gas.

those are indirect subsidies.

until those are removed, or wind subsidies are increased to match those, complaining about subsidies for a relatively young energy industry is ridiculous.

it becomes more ridiculous if you look into the historical subsidies of coal.

]]> By: dpbennett http://cleantechnica.com/2012/07/20/wind-farms-add-nearly-6b-20k-jobs-to-illinois-economy/#comment-127606 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:43:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=40490#comment-127606 “In order to keep new jobs coming from wind energy, we need to see important state and federal policies in place,” In other words we need to ensure the tax payer coughs up for these white elephants. And then we just need the wind to blow a bit.

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