Fossil Fuel Subsidies Outpace Renewables
The research and consulting firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) reports that subsidies for fossil energies are far outweighing those for renewables.
Does that really surprise anyone?
It shouldn't for those who are at least sentient.
There are many here who support a carbon tax in order to assure that the wealthier classes can burn fossil fuels to their hearts' content.
Always good to stick it to people at the bottom. Too many of them anyway. It's the usual winger solution to make the poor pay for the pleasure of the rich.
Or maybe people haven't bothered thinking these things through.
We can get off our fossil fuel addiction.
We need only will it. Like Dorothy, we can return home anytime we wish from fantasyland.
Conveyances of all kinds have been burning biomass far longer than fossil fuels. It all started with hayburners and even now is available in small quantities on an experimental basis for jet engines.
This guy frightened half the remaining wits out of the technical geniuses at FoxNews as a purported people eater:
But Mark Twain reported long ago that the Trans-Egypt Railroad was burning mummies.
Our fine EPA has now sided with the remaining half-wits declaring biomass is worse than coal. It is doubtful more mountain top removal will improve the vision of such people. Even that is not good enough for the Sierra Club.
Q: But won't converting to renewables cause a massive depression?
A: We are already in a depression though we prefer to call it a recession. Jobs are the way out of depressions.
Q: But won't there be dislocations?
A: Of course there will be. My favorite would be moving the people living in Obamaville tent cities to vacant housing that is now buzzard roosts. The buzzards can make do somehow.
Q: Would we destroy the forests?
A: No. We could save them along with life on the planet.
Cover: Unnaturally dense forests like this one in central
Oregon’s Deschutes National Forest are prone to insect
infestations, disease and severe wildfire. This forest would
have been a prime candidate for thinning for both forest
health and as a source for woody biomass. Instead, it was
consumed in a wildfire.
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Q: When can we start?
A: Whenever we return to sanity.
Best, Terry