If you're a fan of a certain dried-leaves-boiled-in-water-related political party, you might believe that renewable energy is the recipient of huge amounts of government largesse, and that the first thing we should do once we get our guy or gal into office is slash all that wasteful spending.
But wait! It turns out coal gets way, way more subsidies for electricity generation. The situation is almost as ugly as this graph, which looks like Claudia Kishi's sweater drawer.