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Energy Subsidies

Time for Change -- Shifting Energy Spending in Africa

Antoinette Sayeh | Posted 03.28.2013 | World
Antoinette Sayeh

For many years, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have spent large amounts on subsidizing fuel and electricity. For both sources of energy combined, this averages around 3-4 percent of GDP. Is this a good use of scarce resources?

Subsidizing Energy Consumption: Why it's Wrong and What Can Be Done About it

Carlo Cottarelli | Posted 03.27.2013 | Business
Carlo Cottarelli

Let's face it. Everybody loves cheap energy. Almost all human activities require energy consumption and, if something is so basic, it seems pretty obv...

We Need More Than Energy Independence

J. Mijin Cha | Posted 01.13.2013 | Green
J. Mijin Cha

Shifting support from fossil fuels to renewables will ensure not just a strong energy future but it will finally put us on the path to meaningful and effective climate policy.

In The Name Of Fairness, Romney Takes Aim At ... Wind Power?

Tom Zeller Jr. | Posted 10.03.2012 | Green
Tom Zeller Jr.

Earlier this week, Mitt Romney's presidential campaign made clear that the Republican candidate would end a tax credit, currently set to expire at the...

A Smart Way to Start Rebuilding America

Carl Pope | Posted 01.04.2012 | Green
Carl Pope

There really is no shortage of ways to fund our transportation infrastructure -- if the oil industry and foreign oil producers pay their fair share.

Governor Rick Perry Please Lobby the Super Committee to End Permanent Energy Subsidies

Jigar Shah | Posted 12.29.2011 | Green
Jigar Shah

This is no longer a left wing, right wing argument. We don't need votes on issues that are on one side of the aisle or the other. We want to ask -- "Is this how we want to spend our tax dollars?"

Jordan Howard

Solar Industry In Need Of Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Howard | Posted 11.29.2011 | Green

WASHINGTON -- Clean energy advocates have long looked to solar power as a way to break the country's dependence on foreign oil. However, the cost of o...

Our Economy Can't Win a Thrown Fight

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Posted 11.01.2011 | Green
Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

The beauty and danger of capitalism is that it's survival of the fittest. Some companies survive and thrive. Many don't. Unfortunately, Solyndra, a Bay Area solar panel company, didn't.

"All of the Above" Is No Energy Policy

William S. Becker | Posted 05.28.2011 | Politics
William S. Becker

Several times recently, we've heard this argument: When it comes to securing America's energy future, we need "all of the above" -- coal, oil, gas, nuclear, solar, wind, and so on. That is a not an energy policy; it's a cop-out.

Cold-Blooded: Grandma Souljah, Felon-Friendly Cuts, and Other Austerity Horrors

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Something has gone seriously wrong when Democrats can convince themselves that their path back to popularity lies in cutting Social Security and leaving poor people to freeze in the dark.

Weekly Mulch: With D.C. in GOP Hands, Environmentalists Must 'Fight Harder'

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
The Media Consortium

by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger For the environmental community, this coming year offers a chance to regroup, rethink and regrow. Two year...