{"id":9586,"date":"2022-12-21T14:43:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T14:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9586"},"modified":"2022-12-21T14:43:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T14:43:12","slug":"subsidies-wont-fix-the-energy-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9586","title":{"rendered":"Subsidies Won&#8217;t Fix the Energy Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;If Congress isn&#8217;t willing to end energy subsidies entirely, it could still make energy technologies more competitive by simplifying&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/files\/stock\/files\/gillingham_stock_cost_080218_posted.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">all 44<\/a>&nbsp;energy tax provisions. For instance, it could offer tax credits to companies based on what their emissions are, without requiring that they use any specific technologies to hit those targets.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sgp.fas.org\/crs\/misc\/R46970.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unlike targeted subsidies<\/a>, such performance-based provisions have historically led to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2015\/10\/23\/2015-22837\/standards-of-performance-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-from-new-modified-and-reconstructed-stationary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">less greenhouse emissions<\/a>.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/11\/26\/subsidies-wont-fix-the-energy-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/11\/26\/subsidies-wont-fix-the-energy-industry\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If Congress isn&#8217;t willing to end energy subsidies entirely, it could still make energy technologies more competitive by simplifying all 44 energy tax provisions. For instance, it could offer tax credits to companies based on what their emissions are, without requiring that they use any specific technologies to hit those targets. Unlike targeted subsidies, such performance-based provisions have historically led to less greenhouse emissions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/11\/26\/subsidies-wont-fix-the-energy-industry\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[105,235,234,104,411,238,141],"class_list":["post-9586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-climate-change","tag-energy","tag-energy-policy","tag-global-warming","tag-policy","tag-subsidies","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9587,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9586\/revisions\/9587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}