Climate-change giveaway pledges looking pretty iffy these days « Hot Air

Ethanol subsidies should have ended long ago. But if the solar and wind producers are still only existing on the grace of federal subsidies, then perhaps those should end as well. The US has been underwriting wind and solar for decades in the hope that they would eventually transform into profitable and high-production industries. Even the progressives that back them in principle and insist on subsidizing them wind up opposing construction of sites like the wind farm off of Cape Cod (the Cape Wind project) and solar farms like Ridgway and Teanaway. The use of these technologies in practice for mass production creates eyesore sites, eats up tons of land, and has their own impacts on the local environment.

It’s time to stop wasting money, and certainly time to stop the push for redistribution of wealth using “global warming” as the excuse du jour.