Unfortunately these arguments rarely acknowledge the need to contextualize the cost of administering these subsidies in the current regime of centralized government-dominated powergeneration and transmission.
For Mr Renato, the biggest difficulty for any family-run business is handing over power to the next generation when the current head of the family retires.
In Michigan, meanwhile, the public service commission there says that the 10 percent target by 2015 is saving money for energy customers, largely because the price of future advanced coal generation is greater than the current subsidized price of green power.
He said the new platform will deliver up to two times the performance benefits over Intel's current-generation solution (Intel Atom processor Z2460 platform), while also offering competitive power and battery life.
As noted in previous posts, current consumption figures do not reflect the expected growth in areas such as chemical industry feedstocks, or powergeneration (where most new fossil-based supply will come from highly efficient gas-fired generators).