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Subsidizing Big Wind: The Real Costs to Taxpayers   Issues 2012 No.25 October 2012 Subsidizing Big Wind: The Real Costs to Taxpayers Robert Bryce, Senior Fellow   Excerpt: No other segment of the energy sector gets as much preferential treatment as the wind-energy industry. Up until last year, the corn-ethanol industry enjoyed both a mandate and a subsidy. Congress ended the corn-ethanol subsidy,…