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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (605918)4/1/2011 11:18:44 AM
From: TimF1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 1577139
 
You are either a purist or not.

What do you mean by that?

If your suggesting I should be against all energy subsidies I pretty much am. Perhaps I'd allow for subsidies for heating for poor people, but if your going to support the poor it might be better to subsidize their income rather than subsidize various specific things. (The counter argument is that some of them are poor because they make horrible decisions, and that if you just hand them cash they might spend it and at the end of the month not have enough for the gas or electric bill.)

Also I don't have a big problem with federal funding of basic research in energy.

But in terms of subsidizing large scale energy production/extraction and distribution I'm against it whether its nuclear, oil, coal, solar, wind, geo-thermal, hydro-electric, natural gas, or anything else. Get rid of all the subsidies and we will be better off.
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