He said that without subsidies the energy market would focus on coal and gas instead.
Without subsidies, the wind industry would be forced to take a hard fresh look at its product.
So can these forms of energy achieve economies of scale that will allow them to compete without subsidies?
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Over the long term, insists Tanti, wind power will be competitive with fossil fuel power even without subsidies.
He thinks electric cars will compete without subsidies against conventional cars only when production reaches about 500, 000 per model.
Solar power will be competitive without subsidies by 2020, the solar lobby insists.
Without subsidies, federal loans or draconian national regulations, many green-related ventures will cut as oppose to add jobs, as is already beginning to occur.
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Thanks to dramatic advances in wind-turbine technology, the costs of setting up and operating wind generators now approach those of gas turbines, even without subsidies.
In fact, I strongly believe any nascent technology that cannot exist without subsidies beyond an introductory period will not gain market penetration, and is not worth supporting.
Solar, wind, biofuels, and other renewable technologies continue to improve and in some specific applications and geographies have become cost competitive with fossil fuels even without subsidies.
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The wind industry has largely been out-competed by natural gas, which has proved to be a clean, reliable and cheap power source for the future without subsidies or even venture-capital funding.
The short-run focus of most Department of Energy funding misses the main strategic imperative: We need alternatives that can scale to significance long-term without subsidies, and we need a lot more North American oil and gas in the meantime.
Without those subsidies, the feature-packed phones carriers hand out for free would cost several hundred dollars.
Without government subsidies, hybrid and electric vehicles are a hard sell for the average American consumer.
The policy can't work without the subsidies for clean energy that Mr Paterson wants to see scrapped.
"Without those subsidies, people don't move out" of shelters, the mayor told reporters after the coalition released a report on homelessness.
The House and Senate bills stipulate that premiums would be calculated to cover benefit payments over a 75-year horizon without federal subsidies.
Companies like ours are able to operate and maintain many public parks using just the user fees that are already paid at the gate, without taxpayer subsidies.
It is operated privately, and runs without taxpayer subsidies.
It is one of the few subway systems in the world that is operationally profitable without government subsidies, thanks to revenue from advertising, property leases and parking fees, in addition to ticket sales.
Like many other Solar companies, First Solar has diversified into project development, and set its sights on places where the high price of power means that its solar modules can be profitable without uncertain subsidies.
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Declining module prices are expected to help drive down the costs of solar energy and eventually make it competitive with traditional sources of energy such as coal and gas power plants, even without government subsidies.
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Interesting announcement but regardless of innovation without carrier subsidies it is not going to go anywhere in the US, and I would imagine most of the Tier 1s are holding them back for the iPhone 5.
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When they presented the plan to us, my responsibility to taxpayers is to look at those plans in a realistic way and figure are these plans going to work in order to put these auto companies on a firm, solid footing where they can operate without government subsidies and succeed, and compete in the marketplace.
Without huge government subsidies, vertical separation has been a failure everywhere it has been tried.
There are farmers who say they could not survive without these government subsidies.
Properly costed, and without cross-subsidies, many businesses don't make money and never have.
At their current cost, electric vehicles are not competitive without significant government subsidies.
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