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Subsidizing the Sun
Here's a quote from Steve Baer's intro to the pamphlet, "Subsidizing the Sun,"
written with William Shurcliff, in 1988, about 4 years after the 40% renewable
US tax credits expired:
I don't want to watch them try to subsidize the sun again. I don't care
what the subsidies are to oil, coal or nuclear energy. If you read
the following pamphlet you will see why I believe that it is futile
to try to subsidize the sun. Our only hope is to take away competing
subsidies. What I hate most about our government help is the kind of
people it attracts. The "far-sighted" environmentalists who prove
you need it, the weapons lab scientists who promise to solve the problem
for just a few hundred million dollars and, least vile of the three groups,
the fast buck artists who peddle the overpriced equipment. Another
sidelight I don't like (actually I have kind of enjoyed it) is becoming
a "crackpot" by repeating an obvious truth to people who will not listen.