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by JoeAltmaier 3913 days ago
Tax breaks so often get sucked up by the supplier, so the consumer sees none of it. Prices will jack up until, even with a consumer tax break, its almost exactly the same deal as conventional energy. Anything else is leaving money on the table, which no rational supplier will do.

Means, if tax breaks are not uniform (state by state for instance) then they server to impede new markets.

Law of unintended consequences.

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>Tax breaks so often get sucked up by the supplier, so the consumer sees none of it.

This happens when the industry itself is very uncompetitive.

Green energy is hardly "interns jockeying for a media job" competitive but it's still way above oil industry or finance industry levels.

The number of green-energy scandals grows yearly. They have no moral high ground to stand on in that regard. And all energy suppliers play in the same competitive sandbox, right?