Busting myths--or just re-creating them?
Dr. Robert Peltier, editor-in-chief of POWER magazine, recently penned an article which purported to "bust" the "myth" that fossil fuels receive more subsidies than renewable energy. In so doing, Dr. Peltier cherry-picked a single study that conveniently ignores the energy subsidies handed out for the past 90 years to the conventional energy industries in order to back up a falsehood. As the Congressional Research Service puts it, “For more than half a century, federal energy tax policy focused almost exclusively on increasing oil and gas reserves and production. There were no tax incentives promoting renewable energy or energy efficiency.”
Studies from the Government Accountability Office, Congressional Research Service, alongside studies commissioned by the Nuclear ...





