http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/17/solar-rebates-are-going-fast/ Environmental Leader Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:52:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2009/11/17/solar-rebates-are-going-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-162977 John Atkins Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:42:04 +0000 http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=27435#comment-162977 Rebates are serving their purpose, but have not served it yet, especially in some slower to adopt markets, like here in Tennessee. They still work and are needed. Yet, even without the budget woes affecting many jurisdictions, publicly funded rebates are bound to run out. Two solutions: manufacture rebates, like cars and legislation to reduce the long and large subsidies to conventional energies. Had there never been such conventional subsidies, renewables might not have needed them at all. So, where is the push to reduce oil and coal subsidies? Rebates are serving their purpose, but have not served it yet, especially in some slower to adopt markets, like here in Tennessee. They still work and are needed. Yet, even without the budget woes affecting many jurisdictions, publicly funded rebates are bound to run out. Two solutions: manufacture rebates, like cars and legislation to reduce the long and large subsidies to conventional energies. Had there never been such conventional subsidies, renewables might not have needed them at all. So, where is the push to reduce oil and coal subsidies?

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