Luddites was the wrong word, no doubt. No one doesn't believe in funding research and development, either private or public, but full blown public financing production is socializing risk and losses, but not profit. Considering our recent history of gov picking winners and losers, it's just a bad idea.
As the Spanish studies conclude alternative energies don't pay off and cost jobs. Also as European countries, who have been at this a lot longer than we, are one by one ending subsidies.
Many utilities have to buy a proscribed percentage of KWs from renewables, wind or solar companies. What many electric rate payers don't know is that when the wind don't blow or the sun don't shine the electric utility has to reimburse the renewable firms for half their losses.
None of this really cost us anything, because the gov has no money. It's the earnings of people not even born.
