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Right, natural gas is a good alternative. Base load power and cleaner burning. But that is an entirely different proposition to subsidising purchase and use o

• toomuchtodo 12y ago
  > But that is an entirely different proposition to subsidising purchase and use of solar panels at above-market rates. I don't think I agree. Fossil fuels have been subsidized for over a century. Are you saying you don't believe renewables should be subsidized to get us "over the hump" until they're a lower cost option? Because I would disagree with that. We have the opportunity to move to energy that is clean, reliable, and unable to be controlled by a small group of people. We shouldn't just be subsiding it; we should be producing wind turbines and solar flat out like the US produced tanks and aircraft on automotive assembly lines during both world wars.