Many farmers, for example, receive subsidised or free fuel, fertiliser, electricity and water.
For example, India subsidises the cost of energy to pump water for agriculture, which encourages producers to pump more water than they need.
Venezuela sprays huge amounts of subsidised oil around the region, for example; it also subsidises domestic petrol prices.
That will give them political clout and lead to questions about the subventions which more traditional forms of power generation enjoy (coal production, for example, is heavily subsidised in parts of Europe).Fossil-fuel-powered electricity will not be pushed aside quickly.
For example, energy companies subsidise households and businesses that generate their own renewable energy by paying them so-called Feed-in Tariffs.
"There's no good reason, for example, that taxpayers currently subsidise millionaires more, when they purchase a second home, or a yacht, than they do middle-class families purchasing their first home".
Some health insurance schemes subsidise or exempt contributions for certain eligible subgroups, for example social health insurance usually subsidises the premium for low-income populations (Hsiao 2007).
The Green Revolution of the 1960s, for example, provided new seeds and subsidised fertilisers.
For example, Family Credit (FC), which subsidises low-earning parents, currently accounts for around £2 billion ($3.2 billion) of the social-security bill.
It's quite a clever tactic, but it doesn't take away from the fact that, for example, there is no justification for subsidising yet more fossil fuel extraction from the North Sea.
