Many countnies subsidise their farmers. We don't. Many countries subsidise their electricity production systems. We don't.
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/07/do...out-subsidies/
"Does Wind ‘Work’ Without Subsidies?" (2019 article, about the USA)
"By some metrics, wind power is already competitive with fossil fuels without extra financial help. But other measures don’t reach the same conclusion — and projections vary about what will happen to the industry when its biggest subsidy goes away."
"The primary federal subsidy for wind is a tax credit known as the production tax credit, or PTC, which offers wind facilities and some other renewables a small tax credit for every kilowatt hour of energy produced over a farm’s first decade."
"The credit, however, is already being phased out. After being worth a maximum of 2.3 cents per kWh for farms that broke ground in 2016, the credit value has fallen by 20 percentage points each year, and the PTC is scheduled to elapse entirely at the beginning of 2020."
"It should be noted that other forms of energy also receive subsidies. “Every energy technology we’ve had … has benefited quite substantially from the federal government,” said Jay Bartlett, a senior research associate at the independent nonprofit Resources for the Future."
"Natural gas and oil producers, for instance, receive tax preferences for exploration and development costs, and receive additional tax breaks related to extraction, among others."
"According to reports from the Department of Energy and the Congressional Research Service, fossil fuels have historically received more support than renewables"
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