Some Republicans going against GOP on climate change

[The Comrade]

oh that is such a bullshit way of measuring subsidies. every dollar given to renewables using that shitty metric is weighted 25 times more than one given to fossil fuels simply because renewables are not a large part of the energy sector. it completely ignores percentages and real dollar values of subsidies and by using that metric artificially inflates the values for renewables.

it's like saying that a tax credit to someone making 50k a year is worth MORE than one given to GE when you compare it to their net income or something. it's just a totally disingenuous way of looking at it.

[lnrw]

you may not like it, but bullshit, it's not.

[The Comrade]

Yes it is bullshit. It's like comparing a family farm and some farm conglomerate that owns hundredss of thousands of acres and saying the few thousand you have to the family farm compared to the millions given to the conglomerate is a higher subsidy because when you compare their crop yields the subisidy is greater. That's stupid.

[lnrw]

it's volume. and fossil is getting less per unit.

i don't like any subsidies, but the reality is that renewable volume is very small when compared to fossil.

so if renewable volume continues to expand and displace fossil use, then the subsidies will too, likely.

hopefully oil will lose their subsidies if nothing else.

[The Comrade]

[lnrw]

[The Comrade]

no it's not. i already linked that renewable is cheaper than fossil fuels. for a 20 year contract you can get your home heated 100% with solar for about 140 a month if you go through a company, and about 10-20k upfront if you buy the panels yourself(which will pay for themselves in less than 10 years).

and if renewables were subsidized like fossil fuels are then the price would drop even further.

[lnrw]

the price is paid for by the end user one way or another. in the case of solar subsdies, it may be less for the user than what it costs. but for gas, it's charged at the pump.

believe what you want. solar costs more, at this point, per unit.

[The Comrade]

Holy f**k read the article I posted or provide your own source.

[Indy]