After 30 years and plenty of talk about being ‘competitive’ with coal, gas and nuclear, wind and solar are still being treated like untamable toddlers. The subsidies they begged for in the beginning were meant to help so-called ‘infant’ industries get on their feet. But, even now, the mere mention of reducing subsidies turns them into bawling brats, furious at the prospect of ever having to make an honest dollar.

Even when the subsidy stream is flowing strong and steady, the rent-seekers that profit from the greatest economic and environmental scam of all time are always pressing for more. As John Constable explains below.

Demands for more subsidy expose the illusion of falling wind power costs
Net Zero Watch
John Constable
1 March 2023

Net Zero Watch is highlighting the fact that claims of falling wind power costs are contradicted by demands from wind power operators for additional subsidies on…

By Diana Furchtgott-Roth ~

After one of the biggest banks in the technology startup lending space collapsed last week, President Joe Biden tried to reassure Americans that their banking system was still safe. But if bank examiners are not doing their job, which was the fundamental problem in the Silicon Valley Bank crash, then customers’ deposits are not safe.

Bank documents also seem to indicate that corporate leadership may have been more interested in things like environmental sustainability, climate change, and diversity initiatives than risk management.

The collapse of one of the biggest banks in the technology startup lending space last week shows that banks need to focus on risk management, not environmental and social justice policies. Pictured: The media interviews a Silicon Valley Bank customer outside of the bank office on March 13, 2023, in Santa Clara, California. Days after the bank collapsed, customers are lining up to try…