This is one of the things I was talking about when I said "simplifying". That's exactly their motivation, yes. Resisting it requires political will, or we will

This is one of the things I was talking about when I said "simplifying". That's exactly their motivation, yes. Resisting it requires political will, or we will continue to let the increasingly irrelevant tail wag the dog. There is definitely a case for subsidising the existence of mostly-idle gas plants to make the costs of keeping them around profitable for the medium term (you can think of them roughly as playing the role of a battery), but indefinitely subsidising the equivalent of buggy-whip manufacturers is not a long-term solution for the economy.