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This is mostly a mirage – large-scale wind power will not work anytime soon without subsidies.
The IEA estimates that the annual bill for global wind subsidies will increase over the next 25 years, not decrease or fall to zero.
Building more wind and solar generating capacity with subsidies means societies end up paying three times for power – once for the power, once for subsidies to inefficient renewables, and once more to subsidize our now-inefficient fossil fuels.
It could promote its industries through high tariffs, explicit subsidies, domestic content requirements on foreign firms, investment incentives, and many other forms of industrial policy.
This deterioration in government finances is not due to declining revenues, but to sharp increases in expenditures (such as wages, subsidies, interest payments and defense spending), which do little to boost growth in the way that government capital expenditures can.
Europe needs to curb subsidies for old and dying industries, and to invest the money saved in future-oriented sectors.
Subsidies on diesel and cooking gas have been reduced in the face of vociferous opposition.
Never mind that all 23 FN members of the European Parliament are paid with EU money, or that Le Pen herself is under a judicial investigation for misappropriating her MEPs’ subsidies.
Apart from promises to reduce employment regulation, all of the new measures boil down to officials directing state money and subsidies to companies and projects of their choosing.
Moreover, the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of global trade negotiations desperately needs to be concluded, and the EU has made a number of positive moves in this direction by proposing vast changes to its export subsidies regime.
Countries like India and Indonesia are now facing possible financial crises, in part owing to large budget deficits, a major component of which has long been food and energy subsidies.
Some leaders in these countries are aware of the need to reduce these subsidies.
Publicly sponsored research ensured basic scientific breakthroughs, and large initial subsidies, in Germany and then in other countries, enabled the industry to achieve critical scale.
As for sub-Saharan Africa, the "Washington Consensus" - economic liberalization, deregulation of capital movements, suppression of subsidies, and privatization - runs against the very policies needed to promote political improvements, a stable macroeconomic environment, enlarged financial markets, and lower debt overhang.
Low oil prices offer an ideal opening to reduce subsidies, thereby releasing funds that governments can spend on basic services and social-welfare programs that advance poverty reduction.
But advising countries simply to lower subsidies is often meaningless.
That is why holding down subsidies is inadequate for such countries.
Specifically, governments should divert the money they save on oil and subsidies to targeted programs aimed at helping people escape poverty, and they should incorporate into their tax regimes incentives for innovation and investment in clean energy.
Fuel subsidies are widespread in developing countries, consuming some 25-30% of government revenues – much more than education spending, in most cases.
These subsidies do not just undermine efforts to reduce environmental damage from emissions; they also tend to benefit the rich significantly more than the poor.
Eliminating energy subsidies would free up public funds for scientific research and education, generating benefits for the environment and improving the wellbeing and prospects of the poor.
Though reducing subsidies can be politically challenging, Ghana and Indonesia have shown that reallocating funds to social sectors can help build popular support for it.
As I have argued before, if money for energy subsidies were reallocated to education, the environmental benefits would be compounded.
Electricity, water, petroleum products and many other consumer basics are seeing double-digit increases, partly as a result of a decrease in government subsidies.
Half of those outlays are for health programs, including Medicaid and the health-insurance subsidies under the 2010 Affordable Care Act (so-called Obamacare).
The other half are for a complex range of programs including food stamps, housing subsidies, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and cash relief.
Though much of the bottled water currently sold in China comes from other sources – chemically treated tap water or mineral water from other provinces – China seems to think that the bottling of Himalayan glacier water can serve as a new engine of growth, powered by government subsidies.
The Real Danger of Global WarmingPRAGUE – I am surprised at how so many people nowadays in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere have come to support policies underpinned by hysteria over global warming, particularly cap-and-trade legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and subsidies for “green” energy sources.
My audience included business leaders who hope to profit from cap-and-trade policies and from subsidies for renewable energy and “green” jobs.
So I am amazed to see people going along with the currently fashionable political argument that policies like cap-and-trade, government mandates, and subsidies for renewable energy can actually benefit an economy.
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