Energy
Before installing rooftop solar to save on power bills, do the math
They paid $17,500 to install the panels to save $30/mo. After a standard
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Energy
How can your ‘almost there’ industry STILL need several decades’ worth of tax credits?
Since at least the 1970s, renewable energy advocates have said their industry is just a few short years away from competing with traditional energy sources, so they need government support…
Liberty
The potholes in Tesla’s future
Retired hedge fund manager David Rocker is betting against Tesla’s long-term prospects. He explains why in a Barron’s column. Those who think today’s stock market is unlike that of 2000,…
Energy
Tesla’s reliance on cronyism
Susan Crabtree of the Washington Free Beacon details Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s continued reliance on lobbying to prop up his electric car company. Tesla Inc. has spent more than $100,000…
Energy
Another solar company reaching its failure tipping point
An Investors Business Daily report carries the headline “SunEdison Bankruptcy Whispers Char SolarCity, First Solar, SunPower“: SunEdison’s (SUNE) inferno continued Wednesday, a day after rumors flared that it might be in debtor-in-possession…
Liberty
Beginning to notice the ‘solar bubble’
View in your browser. When Pew Charitable Trusts published its big 2014 report touting solar energy’s rise in North Carolina, they probably didn’t know that every single page in their…
Energy
MIT Technology Review: ‘Suddenly, the Solar Boom Is Starting to Look like a Bubble’
…it’s well known that the renewable energy industry’s business model is entirely based on and utterly dependent on capturing public subsidies. It’s all about winning government goodies.—Yours truly, 8/28/15 You’ve probably heard this one.…
Liberty
No worries for enviros: Supreme Court decision will not harm the climate
View in your browser. 1. No worries for enviros: Supreme Court decision will not harm the climate The Supreme Court decision to put a hold on the implementation of EPA’s…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Barron’s D.C. man makes case against continuing solar subsidies … whether he means to or not
Jim McTague‘s latest “D.C. Current” column in Barron’s appears to lament the fact that the solar industry might lose the crutch American taxpayers have provided it for a decade. Read…
Liberty
Donlan laments Tesla Founder’s reliance on tax credits, subisidies, and government contracts
The entrepreneurial spirit is great. But Barron’s editorial page editor Thomas Donlan explains in his latest commentary that too much of high-profile entrepreneur Elon Musk’s potential business lies outside the…
Elections & Public Integrity
Barone tackles the ‘solar scandal’
Michael Barone‘s latest column posted at National Review Online focuses on the fiasco surrounding taxpayer funding for the Solyndra solar project. The House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee conducted a…