Solar and wind are not viable without tax subsidies. That's a fact nobody disagrees upon. When you consider government mandates to purchase x% of energy from "clean" sources, the capex is practically mandatory.
o&g capex is a fraction of what it was two years ago because the commodity is 70% less. O&g gets the opposite treatment from government as wind solar, it pays the highest effective tax rate, is punished with trivial environmental regulations, and there are c&d orders on fracking based upon anecdotes and a public hoax that it regularly contaminates groundwater, b.o. even wants to levy a $10 per barrel tax to send more money to wind and solar.
The playing field couldn't be any more uneven.
The article was really stupid, deliberately misleading and uninformitive, which is par for the course for that publication. Anyone who reads it is doomed to be misinformed and is probably really stupid anyways.