Green energy is a bargain, compared to fossil fuels, says May

Total global green energy public subsidies totalled between $43-billion and $46-billion, compared to subsidies to fossil fuels pegged at $557-billion. That's 12 times more 'corporate welfare.'

U.S. President Barack Obama has said that "a green, renewable energy economy isn't some pie-in-the-sky, far-off future—it is now. It is creating jobs—now. And it can create millions of additional jobs, an entire new industry if we act now."

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