I’m getting a lot of comments on Facebook at the moment along the lines of: “Solar needs to stand on its own two feet without subsidies of any kind”.
What these commenters (and our government) seem to miss is that fossil fuels in Australia – and around the world – are massively more subsidised than renewables.
This cartoon fresh from First Dog on the Moon, first posted on treealerts.org, sums up the situation nicely:
Currently Raging Debates: