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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