Forget wind – Britain needs nuclear subsidies

Matt Ridley masterfully applies Bastiat's "broken-window fallacy" to green energy jobs, writing last December in City AM, a UK financial newspaper:

We’ve previously documented that even top nuclear executives admit that nuclear energy is expensive, and only survives due to massive government subsidies. Time noted in 2008:

We’ve previously documented that even top nuclear executives admit that nuclear energy is expensive, and only survives due to massive government subsidies. Time noted in 2008:

Given Mitt Romney's recent debate-zinger about President Obama's serious affinity for green energy and this Wednesday's big Department of Commerce announcement regarding final antidumping and anti-subsidy duties on Chinese solar panels, American green energy policy - and green subsidies in particular - have been (and likely will continue to be) in the news.