Actually, they wouldn't win; many renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels nowadays. Though this is a good point; we need to factor “stealing from the future” a

Actually, they wouldn't win; many renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels nowadays. Though this is a good point; we need to factor “stealing from the future” and other externalities into the price somehow, if we are to use a capitalist market. (Hence carbon taxes, rather than carbon subsidies, should be government policy.)