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302 go to carbon fuel companies
John Broder, ”Obama's Bid to End Oil Subsidies Revives Debate,” New York Times, January 31, 2011.
303 the dirtiest liquid fuel, kerosene, is heavily subsidized
Narasimha Rao, ”Kerosene Subsidies in India: When Energy Policy Fails as Social Policy,” Energy for Sustainable Development, March 2012.
304 only a few years away from reaching that threshold
Alex Morales and Jacqueline Simmons, ”Renewables from Vestas to Suntech Plan Profit without Subsidy,” Bloomberg, January 26, 2012.
305 utility sector oppose such measures
Joe Romm, ”Who Killed the Senate RPS?,” ClimateProgress, June 27, 2007, thinkprogress.org/climate/2007/06/27/201573/who-killed-the-senate-rps/.
306 including, most prominently, California
State of California, ”California Renewables Portfolio Standard,” 2012,
307 install 500 megawatts of solar energy by 2020
Dave Roberts, ”Why Do 'Experts' Always Lowball Clean-Energy Projections?,” Grist, July 19, 2012, grist.org/renewable-energy/experts-in-2000-lowballed-the-c.r.a.p-out-of-renewable-energy-growth/.
308 China installed double that amount by 2010
Ibid.
309 goal was exceeded 22-fold and is expected
Ibid.
310 ”weren't just off, they were way off”
Ibid.