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Can we start with corporate welfare of fossil fuel companies? Fossil fuel companies take in welfare of trillions of dollars per year and cause 10 million deaths
by thelastgallon 3y ago
Can we start with corporate welfare of fossil fuel companies? Fossil fuel companies take in welfare of trillions of dollars per year and cause 10 million deaths/year from air pollution. Deaths per TWH is negligible from nuclear or renewables, compared to fossil fuels.[1-5]
And then ethanol subsidies. 40m acres are subsidies to grow corn for ethanol, which is a net energy loss. [6,7]
1) https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuel-subsidies-2022 https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuel-subsidies-2022
2) Last year, fuels that drive climate change and pollute the air were underpriced to the tune of $7 trillion. It’s hard to think of a more misguided policy: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-16/climate-change-why-are-governments-still-subsidizing-fossil-fuels https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-16/climat...
4) Air Pollution Kills 10 Million People a Year. Why Do We Accept That as Normal?: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinion/environment/air-pollution-deaths-climate-change.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinion/environment/air-p...
5) https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...
6) Ethanol is a net energy-loser. According to their calculations, ethanol contains about 76,000 BTUs6per gallon, but producing that ethanol from corn takes about 98,000 BTUs: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/07/the-stupidest-federal-subsidy.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/07/the-stupidest-fe...
7) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/acre-corn-grown-ethanol-vs-solar-panels-environment-farmers-nussey/ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/acre-corn-grown-ethanol-vs-so...
- wolverine876 3y agoI'm not sure I understand. Of course we should cut corporate welfare to fossil fuel companies. Does that somehow mean we should supply it to nuclear power companies?
- peterfirefly 3y agoIt matters for cost comparisons.
- thelastgallon 3y agoHow do you level the playing field of past 100 years of fossil fuel subsidies? I think its fair to subsidize nuclear, wind and solar. If renewables + nuclear are subsidized to the same level as fossil fuels (trillions/year), in 10 years we'll have super cheap, clean, abundant energy.
- wolverine876 3y agoI should give my money, and everyone else's money, to large corporations because I mistakenly did it before, and I want to be 'fair'? ?