“Green advocates”: eliminating subsidies would be devastating; also, we’re the cheapest!

It is always amusing when the “renewable” energy crowd starts whining about he elimination of their subsidies. Here is an opinion piece that appeared in Sunday’s Albuquerque Journal from the head of New Mexico’s Renewable Energy Industries Association in which he claims that plans in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” now moving through Congress to eliminate subsidies for “renewables” from the Inflation Reduction Act will “devastate” New Mexico’s renewable industries.

Meanwhile, advocates for so-called “renewables” simultaneously argue that they are actually cheaper than fossil fuels. So, which is it?

The reality is (not surprisingly) wind and solar ARE more expensive especially when required backup sources are considered as energy expert Bjorn Lomborg points out. In reality as New Mexico is already finding out thanks to its Energy Transition Act, there is no such thing as cheap wind and solar.