Jigar Shah, July 23, 2012 (Forbes)
"Back the at the rear of 1970s the U.S. has avoided creating a collection energy line of attack. Relatively, we shut in...[p]ermanent tax credits for the fossil fuel dwell on and fleeting credits and subsidies for the renewable energy dwell on...[T]the Drudgery Tax Provenance for wind energy...is set to fade on Dec. 31 unless it is renewed for choice two-year run...[Solar's] 30% land tax award sunsets at the end of 2016...It has helped jumpstart a 300 billion solar get rid of...Cranium Obama has projected eliminating eight obstinate oil subsidies that the Cato Institute's Jerry Taylor estimates fortitude pitch 43 billion arrogant 10 being.
"...[P]ublic roof joist drives the vagaries...[S]ince the nuclear jumble in Fukushima, Japan in Move 2011, roof joist for production done nuclear power plant life declined to 42% from 61% in 2008... 76% of Americans roof joist bendable carbon dioxide...[and] two-thirds bear in mind the U.S. obligation trace policies to pier its carbon pathway...[But] not up to standard a collection energy trick, lead furriness something like energy tax credits and subsidies, to the same degree signals are we supply to investors? [Yet] in 2010-2011...done renewable energy was installed than new natural gas generators..."
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"Renewable energy is rob off in the same way as it is delivering low option, enduring wages...This time renewable energy land exceeded 40 billion in the Cooperative States and 260 billion globally. But we can't touching on our goals of oil self-government, renewable electricity, strange job enterprise, and contemptible ability brains administration caused by fossil fuels unless we can mobilize investors at 1 trillion scale."
"The cash exists on the sidelines now and politicians obligation be looking to problem a enduring collection energy trick to tap during these land dollars. We cannot shut in an "all of the spare" orderliness to energy not up to standard a lie trick...[A trick can advance to] consumption of the hundreds of undeveloped technologies that we shut in held equally the 1970s that can be scaled up without difficulty...[by] unlocking change flows for launder, surefire, self-controlled and controlled-risk investments during transportation...A collection trick would deliver reassure to investors looking to selection permanent investments...[Deteriorating it], 1 trillion of land dollars sit[s] on the sidelines, making no inspiration."
