When all the people in that segment of the population are net zero energy, then proceed to subsidize the middle class until every fossil fuel and nuclear power plant is shut down. And then the stock holders in dirty energy utilities should be forced to shoulder the decommissioning and bioremediation costs for nuclear power plants and superfund sites. They benefited at the expense of the poor with their dividends from dirty utility energy. It is only fair that they pay back for these wrongly and unethically produced “externalities” (poor health for poor people living near dirty power plants).

*global fossil fuel subsidies were $523 billion and renewable energy subsidies $88 billion in 2011.[1]

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One of the largest subsidies is the cap on liabilities for nuclear accidents which the nuclear power industry has negotiated with governments. “Like car drivers, the operators of nuclear plants should be properly insured,” said Gerry Wolff, coordinator of the Energy Fair group. The group calculates that, “if nuclear operators were fully insured against the cost of nuclear disasters like those at Chernobyl and Fukushima, the price of nuclear electricity would rise by at least €0.14 per kWh and perhaps as much as €2.36, depending on assumptions made”.[17]

Externalities

The subsidies the nuclear and fossil-fuel industry receive — and have received for many years — make their product “affordable.”

Those subsidies take many forms, but the most significant are their “externalities.” Externalities are real costs, but they are foisted off on the community instead of being paid by the companies that caused them.18]

Paul Epstein, director of Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment, has examined the health and environmental impacts of coal, including: mining, transportation, combustion in power plants and the impact of coal’s waste stream.
He found that the “life cycle effects of coal and its waste cost the American public $333 billion to over $500 billion dollars annually”. These are costs the coal industry is not paying and which fall to the community in general. Eliminating that subsidy would dramatically increase the price of coal-fired electricity.[18]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies