Want to Raise Your Taxes to Subsidize Wind Industry?

Wind subsidies?

CFACT Views on Subsidizing Wind Turbines from Craig Rucker:

If you want to learn whether subsidizing wind turbines makes sense, just glance across the pond.

Wind and solar subsidies have effectively doubled the cost of electricity in many European countries.

Wind and solar sound good until you run the numbers.

Every installation places an ongoing burden on tax and rate payers.

At the end of 2013 the PTC, the production tax credit for wind power, expired.

The push is on for Congress to bring it back.

Marita Noon argues effectively at CFACT.org that this would be a mistake.

Marita writes that ‘the Green-energy emphasis was sold as a job creator for unemployed Americans, as a cure for global warming, and as a way to slow a perceived energy shortage. It sounded so positive in the many speeches President Obama gave as a sales pitch to the American public.

Today, Americans know better… Wind energy is more expensive than almost all other electricity sources — only solar is higher.’
Electricity from the wind and sun is anything but free.

Can Congress do the math?

For nature and people too,