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... Green energy is not cost-competitive with traditional energy and won’t be for years. So it can’t work without either taxpayer subsidies, much of which accrue to “entrepreneurs” such as Gore, or higher prices for fossil energy — the brunt of which is borne by people of modest means.
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The point remains: Government, with its inevitable susceptibility to lobbying and favoritism, should not be picking winners and losers, whether through green subsidies or tax breaks for oil and gas.
It’s one thing to lose your job because a competing firm built a superior mouse trap; it’s quite another, justice-wise, to lose it because a competitor talked the government into taking its side.
There must be a better way to pursue the legitimate goals of environmentalism.
Meanwhile, Gore and his partners carry on rent-seeking....
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Green energy is inefficient, undependable and expensive. Other than that it is perfect. Meanwhile Gore and Obama wants taxpayers to subsidize $100,000 electric cars for the one percent that may garner them a round trip to the grocery store if they don't live in the country and they have time to leave it plugged in overnight between trips.
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