{"id":380,"date":"2004-12-10T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2004\/12\/10\/subsidies-bad-for-renewables-good-for-polluters\/"},"modified":"2004-12-10T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-10T21:50:00","slug":"subsidies-bad-for-renewables-good-for-polluters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/subsidies-bad-for-renewables-good-for-polluters\/","title":{"rendered":"Subsidies: Bad for renewables, good for polluters&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marlo Lewis, Jr., a fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcentralstation.com\/121004G.html\">tries to argue<\/a> that renewable energy technologies can&#8217;t have much market demand if their lobbyists are seeking federal and state subsidies: &#8220;If those technologies are &#8216;mature&#8217; and &#8216;poised for wider adoption&#8217; &#8212; wind turbines, after all, have been around for centuries &#8212; then why is government intervention needed to ensure their &#8216;utilization&#8217;? &#8221;  Gee, Marlo, I don&#8217;t know &#8212; couldn&#8217;t have anything to do with the massive subsidies fossil fuel energy sources receive, could it?  Or the ability of oil and gas companies to externalize costs related to pollution and health risks of their products?  How about those &#8220;boondoggles?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marlo Lewis, Jr., a fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, tries to argue that renewable energy technologies can&#8217;t have much market demand if their lobbyists are seeking federal and state&nbsp;[ &hellip; ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Subsidies: Bad for renewables, good for polluters... &#8226; Sustainablog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/subsidies-bad-for-renewables-good-for-polluters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Subsidies: Bad for renewables, good for polluters... &#8226; 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