Lose It: Towards a Tax-neutral Energy Market

It’s happening. After decades of saying that they needed the special government help–but also that they were cheaper and competitive (!)–the economically incorrect energies and their technologies are facing a real free market. The chart below from social media lists some of the current deadlines for major energy subsidies.

And with the end of special government favor will come the clean-up. Expect wind/solar decommissionings and removal to begin outpacing replacement/new additions in the years ahead. Expect EV charging stations to be removed as demand contracts (“It is getting easier to find EV chargers in the U.S. just as the market for electric vehicles hits the skids.”) [1] Expect lawsuits as long-term rooftop-solar contracts are erased by company bankruptcies (how to exit such contracts is a cottage industry). Garbage in-garbage out.

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[1] Jennifer Hiller, “Growth in U.S. EV Chargers Comes as Drivers Veer Away ,” Wall Street Journal (October 6, 2025)