You've paid $521.73 to subsidize fossil fuels, $7.24 to subsidize solar over the past 5 years.

[txlibdem]

With current subsidies, solar is cheaper than grid power in 14% of the nation.

If solar received the same subsidies as fossil fuels? 100% of the nation. I say hell yes. Let's remove all subsidies from fossils and put it all on solar instead.

Check out the link: http://solarpowerrocks.com/infographics/what-if-solar-got-the-same-amount-of-subsidies-as-coal-or-oil/

[dkf]

1. That is what I though Obama was going to do.

This is my biggest disappointment in him.

[PoliticAverse]

2. Let's remove all subsidies from both. n/t

[txlibdem]

3. Fossil Fuels have benefitted from subsidies for 100 years - new tech is going to stand a chance?

Oil companies are the most profitable companies in the world... why are we subsidizing them anyway???

Let's say you've got a little solar company and you want to compete on a level playing field against the most profitable companies in the world. Good luck. You've got a snowball's chance to survive without subsidies.

The only thing you've got going for you are the millions upon millions of consumers who are waiting for the subsidies to help bring the cost down so they can buy your product. That is why we need to end the subsidies to the most profitable companies the world has ever known and give all those subsidies to solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, ocean current, and wave power instead.

Go to the link I provided. The pie chart is almost comical how huge the subsidies fossils get versus a tiny little sliver for solar.

[jwirr]

4. In the past subsidies have been used to move various industries

in the direction we want them to go. I would like to see no subsidy on fossil fuels and a good subsidy of alternative energy. That would move us away from our addiction to fossil fuels.

[diane in sf]

5. Solar isn't rich enough yet to buy politicians to do its bidding.

[txlibdem]

6. The ability of these corporations to buy politicians is what I'd most like to stop

They claim they want a "free market" but then fork out the payola to get sweetheart deals and loophole after loophole. The term Free Market is the biggest lie ever. Especially suspect were the "no bid contracts" during the early days of the Iraq & Afghanistan wars. I still can't excuse the administration for not putting someone in jail for all that went on.