Could we see U.S. solar electricity for $0 per kWh?

[FBaggins]

4. That's ok... it isn't free anyway

The author has confused “paid for indirectly through taxes” for an actual cost reduction.

Incentives to jump-start an industry make sense, but if you effectively get to the point (like China did) that the government is just buying up the production… you can’t argue that the product itself is made viable somehow.

Fossil fuels price increases should be making solar dramatically more competitive. Government subsidies can still make sense in certain conditions… but never to the point where they are essentially free.