‘If alternative energy is so cheap, why does it still need government support?’
By Admin
July 25, 2025
10:14 am
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/more-u-n-climate-nonsense-8100cfa2More U.N. Climate Nonsense
By James Freeman
Excerpt:
Backers of inefficient and unreliable energy production used to say that wind and solar breakthroughs were just around the corner. But one can use this argument to secure government subsidies for only so many decades before taxpayers start asking why they have to support an infant industry that’s older than they are. These days it’s become more common for environmentalists to assert that the future has arrived and alternative energy is now dirt cheap. This ought to make it even harder to explain why government support should continue, but it also may create the misimpression that the massively expensive wind and solar experiment is finally working.
Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres went even further in a Tuesday speech, claiming that fossil fuels are much more heavily subsidized than his beloved alternative energy projects and suggesting that wind and solar are the clear marketplace winners:
The sun is rising on a clean energy age.
Just follow the money.
$2 trillion went into clean energy last year – that’s $800 billion more than fossil fuels, and up almost 70% in ten years.
And new data released today from the International Renewable Energy Agency shows that solar – not so long ago four times the cost of fossil fuels – is now 41% cheaper.
Offshore wind – 53%.
https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/07/25/if-alternative-energy-is-so-cheap-why-does-it-still-need-government-support/
