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Getting away with carbon pollution, if it's a subsidy, is just part of the subsidies the fossil fuel industries get in the U.S. The 20 billion the United State
by lsiebert 8y ago
Getting away with carbon pollution, if it's a subsidy, is just part of the subsidies the fossil fuel industries get in the U.S.
The 20 billion the United States provide each year in national fossil fuel subsidies is a real issue. (per 2015 see https://www.odi.org/publications/10058-empty-promises-g20-subsidies-oil-gas-and-coal-production https://www.odi.org/publications/10058-empty-promises-g20-su...).
I see other numbers that are lower then 20 for different years (This says 8+ billion for 2016 https://newclimate.org/2018/11/14/brown-to-green-report-2018/ https://newclimate.org/2018/11/14/brown-to-green-report-2018...).
I'd guess there are different ways of measuring subsidies, but all of the measures for fossil fuel subsidies I could find were multi billion per year while EV subsidies were only 2 billion over the entire lifetime of the program.