Let us not become the monster we fight today. [RE-wrenches]

[sunwise]

Dana Wrote: 

I suggest [here we go] that all subsidies for all energy be done away
with
and let the customer market decide. Let the reality of real costs, real
demand, and real production decide what the market will be. Nice dream ,
EH?

Hey Dana, 

I dream that as well.  At this point however, I can't see the subsidies
being removed from the fossil and nuclear fuel industries.  If that will
be the reality, leveling the playing field by offering similar(?)
incentives to solar is the next best thing (essentially).  

Even if solar gets the "same" incentive, it has lower embedded costs,
such as environmental degradation, resulting impacts on health, crops,
forests, weather, etc, and of course things like war and its many
"costs".  Solar also keeps more of our energy dollars local, rather than
sending such a significant amount of our dollars/economy out of the
region or the Country.

>From that perspective, solar seems like a good thing for the government
to promote.  I'd also rather see the subsidies removed from fossil and
nuclear energy, but that is not going to happen any time soon.

Kurt Nelson

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