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The Green No Deal: Oil And Gas Still Reign Despite Renewables’ Enormous Handouts

by I & I Editorial Board
July 12, 2024, 7:02 AM
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Given how much renewable energy has been promoted, dressed up, coddled, favored, and subsidized over the last decade or two, it would be understandable to believe that a green transition is well underway. [emphasis, links added]

But don’t be fooled by the foolish. Oil and gas are still king.

Not quite a year ago, the New York Times headline screamed, “The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think.”

Another headline from last year, this one on the govtech.com website, told us “California Hits New Record for Renewable Energy Generation.”

Just before Christmas, Britain’s The Guardian wanted readers to know about “Uruguay’s green power revolution” and how its “rapid shift to wind shows the world how it’s done.”

A decade earlier, that same Guardian said a wonderful “low-carbon future” was just ahead if Britain would stop “subsidizing its coal, oil and gas industries” by $4.2 billion a year.

Subsidies can be a slippery word, especially when used by leftist activists – such as the “journalists” at The Guardian.

They’re not always direct government payments, loans, or tax advantages targeted at specific industries and sectors.

But the darling of government largess is the renewable energy industry, which has been gorging on greater volumes of sumptuous fare at the federal trough…

The fossil fuel industry, for example, takes the tax breaks that are available to all businesses. It also drills on federal land – but at a cost. Private companies lease the property, it’s not given to them.

But the darling of government largess is the renewable energy industry, which has been gorging on greater volumes of sumptuous fare at the federal trough than oil and gas companies.

According to the federal Energy Information Administration, from 2016 to 2022, “nearly half (46%) of federal energy subsidies were associated with renewable energy.”

Over that period, “federal support for renewable energy of all types more than doubled, from $7.4 billion” in fiscal 2016 to $15.6 billion in fiscal 2022.

Meanwhile, oil, gas, and coal received less than 15% of federal support, not even a third of what was gifted to renewables, whose total listed above doesn’t “include tens of billions of dollars per year in clean energy tax credits from 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act,” says the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Climate Portal.

Overall global spending on green energy (which in this case includes nuclear – and always should) in 2024 will exceed $2 trillion, twice the $1 trillion in expenditures on fossil fuels.

Given all of this, it would be reasonable to believe that we’re in the midst of a great green revolution in which conventional energy sources are being sidelined. But we’re not.

Take a look at this chart from Robert Bryce, an energy author and journalist whose work becomes more indispensable by the day.

Despite more than $4 trillion in global spending on just wind and solar from 2004 to 2022, hydrocarbon consumption grew 3.4 times faster.

“We are inundated with news reports about climate change and claims that we are in the midst of an energy transition that will eliminate our need for hydrocarbons,” says Bryce, and that “hype has soared during the Biden administration.”

He also points out that in 2023, gas-fired power generation in the U.S. grew 9.5 times faster than wind and solar combined, and that China and India are producing eight times more electricity from coal than the U.S. and they’re both busily building more coal-fired plants.

“We are not in the midst of a major energy transition. Instead, what we are seeing is the media echo chamber at work.”

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  1. SPURWING PLOVER says:
    11 months ago

    Renewables are just unreliable since the wind don’t always blow 24/7 and the sun isn’t always up there we do have Nighttime and cloud days

  2. Sonnyhill says:
    11 months ago

    Joe Biden, just by his position as POTUS, is the most prolific liar in the world. Green energy hasn’t and won’t solve anything (most greens reject nuclear as an option).
    The electorate is like the frog in a pot of heating water. They are now concerned only because their bank accounts are drained, credit cards maxed out and they might lose their jobs and homes. They can defeat the crooks at the ballot box but the damage done has already gutted our prosperity for years to come.

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