# Green Economies and Renewable Energy **URL:** **By** Jerry Taylor **Published:** February 9, 2011 --- Jerry Taylor points out a few of the flaws in the reasoning of green energy advocates. Cato Senior Fellow Jerry Taylor spoke at a Naples, Florida Policy Perspectives event on February 9, 2011. He pointed out a few of the flaws in the reasoning of green energy advocates and explained why government subsidies for renewable energy startups really only end up wasting taxpayer money.