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Wind energy is simply too weak and too expensive to be reliable on a mass scale.

Solar and wind energy offer the fewest benefits among renewables.

The government subsidizes wind and solar energy because they’re too expensive and unreliable for people to use on their own.

Renewable energy businesses in the U.S. have received 25 times more taxpayer-funded subsidies per energy unit than fossil fuel producers.

To capture, store and use the energy produced by wind and sunlight is very expensive and resource intensive.

Wind and sunlight only make up 2% of total energy production for a reason: Converting them into energy is very expensive.

MYTH: Green energy creates jobs. Between 2000 and 2009, Spain lost 2.2 jobs for every green job created.

Why aren’t solar and wind energy the solution? Because they’re too unreliable and too expensive.

Wind and solar energy are unreliable, not very environmentally friendly, and extremely expensive.

Solar energy is twice as expensive as natural gas.

Germany, a supposed model for green energy, is unable to use wind and solar when they need it most—in the winter.

Why isn’t solar energy used more? Because it provides relatively little energy and is very expensive.