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January 4, 2013

California's Leap Off the Green Energy Cliff

Keith Kohl, Energy & Capital


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We've been watching our government stick its fingers in the energy pie for decades now... Oil and gas subsidies go back nearly a century. We've doled out an average of $4 billion to them every year since. These incentives include a variety of things like tax credits, write-offs, and royalty reductions.

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TAGGED: Electric utilities, California Public Utilities Commission, electricity prices, renewable mandates, government subsidies, Solar energy, wind energy, green energy, renewable energy, California

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