Indeed, basically the entire built environment is one giant fossil fuel subsidy. Almost all construction in the past ~200 years, certainly since WW2, has been m

Indeed, basically the entire built environment is one giant fossil fuel subsidy. Almost all construction in the past ~200 years, certainly since WW2, has been malinvestment based on artificially cheap fossil energy. Really, you can say that the industrial revolution is defined by energy getting exponentially and artificially cheaper as we got better at digging up burnable stuff, burning it, and using the resulting energy to do stuff, including digging up more burnable stuff even faster.