Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies

Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies by blacksqr on Thursday September 19, 2019 @11:21AM (#21017032)

The US government lets oil companies get away with drastically underpaying royalties for oil extracted from federal land. That's pretty close to a direct cash subsidy.

The government could deal with its deficit problems and have a de facto carbon tax just by auditing the oil companies and making them pay the royalties they agreed to pay.

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Re:Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies by tachyonbeam on Thursday September 19, 2019 @01:03PM (#21018182)

Are there actual direct tax breaks, direct government funding for oil companies?

I'm pro-solar, a TSLA investor, but also feel it seems dishonest to use the word subsidy to mean long-term environmental costs. Those costs are obviously not good for us, but they are not subsidies per-se, using that word gives the impression that the government is directly wiring money to oil corporations.

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