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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth
Neil, look at the figures in the article again!
Gas/coal/oil received £3.63 billion but supplied 85% of our energy.
All renewables received £1.4 billion but only supplied 6%.
So each of the 1% supplied by gas/coal/oil was subsidized by £42.7 million.
Each 1% supplied by renewables was subsidized by £233.33 million!
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Neil or anyone
could you explain what subsidies are and why we need them? and whether I could get some to help pay for my fuel bills...LOL