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Re:Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheap... by test6554 on Monday January 29, 2018 @01:34PM (#16259531)
A subsidy is a government cost and likely needs more approvals than A tariff which is a source of income for the government. One was accomplished with executive order while the other would likely have to go through congress.
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Re:Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheap... by crdoconnor on Monday January 29, 2018 @01:38PM (#16259562)
They did it before with solyndra.

That was before solar became an existential threat to coal and gas.

Obama had some fairly close ties with oil/gas despite him trying to tout his green credentials.

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