“Cheap” Solar Does Not Need Subsidies, Right? (wrong)

The wind/solar narrative shifts as the polls do. The latest message is that wind and solar are cost-effective and the natural choice for energy affordability. Yet the renewable industry pleads for evergreen help with the outsized subsidies of the Production Tax Credit (PTC) and Investment Tax Credit (ITC), which are on track to end at the end of next year for any new project.

As the free world turns toward natural gas in the new era, consider the following narrative quotations, aspirational and wrong.

“Some critics of solar facilities have falsely claimed that they are expensive and inefficient….” – Maxine Joselow, “As Trump Obliterates Climate Efforts, States Try to Fill the Gap,” New York Times (February 19, 2026)

“Solar is now the cheapest energy source in human history, yet rollbacks are spreading from California to Virginia as officials blame high costs and a hostile Trump administration.”   –

Climate Blame Game: Global Central Planning Needed?

“Buyer beware. The smartest guys in the room, the expert planners, the government-enabled Lords of the (political) marketplace, want to demote you.”

Central holistic planning (think global government) is needed to organize a dysfunctional world. That is what the climate architects dream about. Enter “planet regeneration” and “macro-systemic architect” Greg Reynolds, who has the post below on social media. It concerns one utility practice; there are thousands more needed to “save” the planet. From the center.

This post from Behavior x Climate names something I’ve watched for years: the climate blame game. Consumers point at corporations. Corporations point to demand. Governments point at voters. Around and around. Progress slows. The planet burns.

Continuing:

But here’s what the post doesn’t name—because it’s the part we’ve all been trained not to see: Every player in that loop is already spending money that could be healing.

Junk Academic Climate/Energy Articles: A Sampling

“Economic efficiency and societal well-being demand that a slew of Marxist-Socialist-Progressive Left professors get real jobs in the private sector serving consumers. To go from Net Zero protagonists to Net Positive producers. In their absence, Internet-AI learning can better serve students….”

It is painful to read through the (far-too-many) academic papers relating to climate change, particularly in the social sciences. Prominent climate journals (AI overview) include:

• Global Environmental Change: Focuses on human and policy dimensions of global environmental change.
• Energy Research & Social Science (ERSS): Examines the intersection of energy systems and society, including behavior and policy.
• Climate and Development: Focuses on qualitative, interdisciplinary studies regarding climate policy, adaptation, and development.
• Environmental Politics: Focuses on the policy, political, and governance aspects of environmental change.
• Weather, Climate, and Society (WCAS): 

Even climate alarmist Chris Mooney, previously at the Washington Post and now at the University of Virginia, raises questions.…

Climate Alarm and “Green” Energy: Protest from San Antonio

On Energy Density (Richard Lyon educates)

Adaptation Momentum, Mitigation Fatigue

Climate Journalism in Decline

Discovering Milton Friedman (1912–2006)

Free-Market Electricity Reform Advancing (Advocates for Consumer Regulated Electricity)

Petrostatism vs. Oil Exceptionalism: Venezuela and Beyond