Comments on: Fossil Fuels Receive $500 Billion A Year In Government Subsidies Worldwide

By: A Real Libertarian

A Real Libertarian — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:59:00 +0000

Funny, low information voter describes you perfectly.

In addition to not knowing what “subsidy” means, you don’t “low information voter” means:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_information_voter

But then, you only know what Rush tells you to know.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 16:16:00 +0000

Tax write-offs aren’t subsidies?

If that’s you personal definition of subsidy then perhaps you understand that neither utility scale wind nor solar receive subsidies?

Wind receives either a ITC (Investment Tax Credit) or a PTC (Production Tax Credit). A tax write down.

Solar receives a PTC.

Neither receive subsidies. Neither receive “money gifts”.

Of course your definition of subsidies does not match the real world definition. And using the commonly acceptable definition of subsidies fossil fuels and nuclear have received massively more subsidy than have renewables. And most of the renewable money has gone to large corporate farms for corn ethanol.

By: socraticsilliness

socraticsilliness — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 11:27:00 +0000

sigh….low info voters…what subsidies? And please, show some intellectual integrity-tax write-offs aren’t subsidies, which are money gifts to entities.

By: Dudette

Dudette — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 11:39:00 +0000

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By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 02:47:00 +0000

Apparently here, linked early on….

http://www.odi.org.uk/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/8668.pdf

By: Wayne Williamson

Wayne Williamson — Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:28:00 +0000

I’m just wonder where the title of this article came from, please show me where in the report it shows 500B.
Look, I’m all for getting rid of the fossil stuff, just make sure your statements add up…I might have missed it…just want some verification…

By: Steeple

Steeple — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:37:00 +0000

Global agreement by 2015? Knock yourself out trying to get Russia and the OPEC members to go totally free market on their most strategic economic assets. Or to get China and India to drop fuel subsidies.

We can surely eliminate them all in the US, but expect zero knock-on effect globally.

Perhaps we should also get a global agreement to ban all forms of violence. Or to make sure all puppies get a hug every day.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 19:00:00 +0000

Stay where you are. Florida’s heat and the surf are coming to you.

By: beernotwar

beernotwar — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 18:50:00 +0000

I have been highly suspicious of the ‘Grand Bargain’ the D.C. establishment seems to be in love with in which Social Security and Medicare cuts are on the table in exchange for increased revenue and cuts to things like oil and gas subsidies. However, given the threat of climate chaos from burning more fossil fuels, I’m thinking I ought to embrace the plan so long as it eliminates all fossil fuel subsidies. My retirement is really going to stink if Florida is under water when I’m finally ready to move there.

By: Marion Meads

Marion Meads — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 18:19:00 +0000

How about the dirt cheap royalties of land leases from the government? And the cost that the taxpayers are subsidizing for the added cost of health care affected by smog and other emissions? It was reported that the number one killer of people through premature death and other diseases are caused by smog and air emissions from fossil fuel combustion. And the taxpayers have to shoulder all of this from increased premiums to government picking up the bill for those who can’t afford the healthcare in emergency rooms. I am not even counting the increased ferocity of storms and the more lethal freezing events, heat wave, flooding and drought.

By: wattleberry

wattleberry — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 15:58:00 +0000

One thing governments hate above all else is disruption to their status quo whereby all that lovely revenue loaded on to fossil fuels so conveniently unavoidable will have to be replaced by alternative sources with all their political risks. No wonder they’re going to preserve the old order as long as they can.