Chris Nelder, now I know you are barmy...
"The program has been a stunning success and resulted in a solar industry that grew from under 3,000 jobs to over 25,000 since its launch in April 2010."
Here you go again with your economically-ignorant blather. Are you not aware that just because 25,000 jobs have been created by government intervention does not mean that the result makes any economic sense?
Your whole argument is predicated on the idea that governments must subsidise alternative energy now in order to displace conventional power ahead of when conventional fuel is supposed to run out.
In the UK the feed-in tarriffs and other subsidies have simply resulted in wealth distribution from poor to rich. Only the middle classes and a few landed gents have the capital (or borrowing power) to invest in these wind and solar boondoggles. And, yes, they get paid handsomely out of the taxes of ordinary people. Worse still, the landed gents get even richer out of large scale government-subsidised commercial wind farms.
The whole thing is a rotten scam, supported only because shale gas and nuclear (the obvious options) are (for some irrational reason) discouraged.
You and your ilk make me very, very angry. Fortunately your happy clappy days of alternative mush now appear to be numbered as the truths behind these scams are beginning to be exposed daily in the mainstream media.
The reality is that the numbers don't add up and never will. Please desist before you create more damage.
