{"id":3684,"date":"2009-09-26T03:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2009-09-26T03:00:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T08:00:38","slug":"part-of-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3684","title":{"rendered":"Part of the Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/green.autoblog.com\/2009\/09\/19\/stury-u-s-subsidises-fossil-fuels-2-5-times-more-than-renewabl\/\">STUDY: U.S. subsidises fossil fuels 2.5 times more than renewables<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fossil fuels were given about $72 billion during the seven years, while renewable fuels got just $29 billion. The money the U.S. spends on renewables isn&#8217;t all that great, either. Of the $29 billion, $16.8 billion went to producing corn-based ethanol. Just two tax credits \u2013 the Foreign Tax Credit and the Credit for Production of Nonconventional Fuels \u2013 account for about $30 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair, normalized to the amount of energy, renewables probably win, but this still seems backwards.  Weaning ourselves from foreign oil and reducing CO2 emissions isn&#8217;t going to be painless.  I think it&#8217;s time that we recognize that, stop being like children afraid of getting a shot at the doctor&#8217;s office, and suck it up a little bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STUDY: U.S. subsidises fossil fuels 2.5 times more than renewables Fossil fuels were given about $72 billion during the seven years, while renewable fuels got just $29 billion. The money the U.S. spends on renewables isn&#8217;t all that great, either. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3684\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}