A post appears to have been withdrawn where somebody suggested that all government subsidies be withdrawn from renewables and let the best man win in the battle between new expensive dirty coal power and new expensive clean power. The writer must have felt a bit of a hypocrite when he realized that most if not all 24 coal power stations were built with government money. It gets worse. After the gov got their money back from the sale of electricity to the taxpayers one would think they would then be able to sell the power at the cost to run and maintain the now paid for station. But no. They then sell or lease it to some big company who just loves a lucrative monopoly and that big company then pays for it all over again by charging whatever they can get away with. Don't give me sob stories about subsidies.