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To put this in context, fossil fuel subsidies, just from 2015 - 2022: $42 trillion Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reached $7 Trillion in 2022: https://e360.yale.

• edgyquant 3y ago
  Seems dishonest to compare a single American company to a global industry containing way more than just transportation fuel.
  • l33t7332273 3y ago
    Even more dishonest is including implicit subsidies right next to actual cash payouts.
• mrtksn 3y ago
  This number appears to include the implicit subsidies too. The explicit subsidies seem to average at about 1/5th of the implicit ones. Implicit subsidies appear to be stuff like not putting a charge on the cost for external impacts, i.e. impact to health. The implicit subsidies to electric car companies could similar or even greater, as it appears that most of the microplastics come from car tires, as discussed recently[0]. The impact of electric cars could be quite big because they are significantly heavier and large part of the emissions attributable to a car come at the manufacturing stage anyway. It’s also the whole global economy, so kind of hard to compare with Tesla Inc subsidies. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37726539 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37726539 Not defending the fossil subsidies, just a poor comparison. Sorry for breaking this narrative though, apparently it's very unpopular thing to do.
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