Wind Power is the cheapest source of energy only in a very naive calculation that treats kW as if they were tomatoes. As most politicians and journalists don't

Wind Power is the cheapest source of energy only in a very naive calculation that treats kW as if they were tomatoes. As most politicians and journalists don't have even a rudimentary understanding of how power generation, distribution and consumption works, they can peddle this lie ad nauseam until the society in general believes it. Of course, this begs the question of why the market needs so much nudging in form of punitive taxes and subsidies to adopt wind generation more widely, which is conveniently answered by the laughable conspiracy theory of the bad evil conservatives banning it because probably they are in the pockets of bad big oil (so, big oil competitors are destitute non-profit companies that can't buy politicians?). Every single time I hear people talking about the "pockets of fossil fuel industry", I wonder if they understand that there are other capital interests in the world, that selling alternative energy probably, and more importantly, financing this transaction have probably a far more tasty upside for big energy corporations and big finance than keep on selling a mineral commodity. You have absolutely huge derivative markets of carbon credits, and yet people act as if everyone is pushing this transition exclusively out of the goodness of their hearts, as if this transitions is not the greatest business opportunity for fleecing tax payers in centuries.