AW: subsidies for renewable energies and the environment

How did you arrive at this conclusion? It seems to me that if you lower the cost of renewable resources, that will result in less exhaustable resources being extracted, since some of the exhaustable resources that could previously be extracted profitably would now remain in the ground. I think

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Re: subsidies for renewable energies and the environment

On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:31:22AM +0100, Hentrich, Steffen wrote: I think that this could only be if subsidies payed up to the exquilibrium price of all exhaustable ressources. But this is not the case. Only a small part of renewable energies gets subsidies and this not in all countries.