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Those are not hidden subsidies of o&g, they are services demanded by the tax payers. They may have started as a subsidy a very long time ago but haven't been fo
by snapplebobapple 4y ago
Those are not hidden subsidies of o&g, they are services demanded by the tax payers. They may have started as a subsidy a very long time ago but haven't been for a very long time because the average person can recognize how useful they are and demand they be built. Demand is slowly changing as people realize infrastructure needs to be designed to be human centric with roads still being a vital but secondary part of the transportation infrastructure and as that changes politicians will start changing what they fund eventually or risk not being elected. It is not right to say it is a subsidy to car manufacturers that car manufacturers should be paying for.
- ElevenLathe 4y agoWhoever is demanding them, they are still subsidies. You can be sure that if there were a bill introduced tomorrow that (with a chance of passing) significantly redirected highway spending, or even just tried to cover the whole bill (including the cost to use direct air capture to undo the climate damage and store the carbon indefinitely) with fuel taxes, the fossil fuel and auto manufacturing lobbies would be tripping over themselves to see it defeated at almost any cost.
- snapplebobapple 4y agoIf that is your position then the word subsidy lacks all meaning because pretty much everything the government does with tax revenue is a subsidy by this definition. Also, it would not just be those lobbies calling their representatives to get that idea overturned, it would be a majority of the populace once they ran the numbers on their cost of living increase from that policy.