All kinds of energy are subsidied. Renewable, oil/gas, nuclear, coal...This is a different subject.
Energy subsidies, like agricultural subsidies, are very common in most countries, China, EU, Russia... There is no true free marketer in energy industry. So, we can only relatively look for a fair game. Take year 2013 for example from wiki, federal energy tax subsidies would cost $16.4 billion that fiscal year, broken down as follows:
1. Renewable energy: $7.3 billion (45 percent)
2. Energy efficiency: $4.8 billion (29 percent)
3. Fossil fuels: $3.2 billion (20 percent)
4. Nuclear energy: $1.1 billion (7 percent)
The largest subsidy went to renewable. For fossil fuel subsidy, usually 80% went to oil/gas, only 20% went to coal. Anyway, subsidy is not the issue in our topic since all energy get subsidies.
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