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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (245891)	4/7/2002 6:52:17 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769670

government subsidies far more generous than those available to U.S. firms Ah, yes, the ONE REALLY NECESARRY ingredient to these schemes. Without picking people's pockets at gunpoint, they don't work. Governments in Europe and Japan heavily tax oil, gas and coal to capture some of the hidden costs--from pollution and global warming to vehicular traffic--of consuming it. Excuses for trade controls. And another admission that the last thing you want is a level playing field. In the U.S., solar and wind energy have looked less attractive--at least until recently when fuel-generated electricity prices spiked for some customers in California to more than 25[cents] a kw-h. And that was a manipulated shortage and everyone in the state knows it. when wind power was regarded as fully competitive with electricity produced from heavily taxed fossil fuels. Once again the truth leaks out. even on a playing field that is canted against them "canted against them"? When the gov't subsidizes the competitor and taxes the piss out of you?