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>clearly the main reason fossil fuels are available, and people buy them despite high taxation on them, is that they're incredibly useful, and not because there
by schiffern 2y ago
>clearly the main reason fossil fuels are available, and people buy them despite high taxation on them, is that they're incredibly useful, and not because there's evil subsidisation
Laser-focusing down to only the "main" reason and ignoring all else will (as expected) miss the forest for the trees.
Subsidies still do cause people to consume more fossil fuels than they would otherwise, so the policy is encouraging pollution (AKA health injuries and deaths that industry shirks accountability for) rather than disincentivizing it.
- robertlagrant 2y ago> Laser-focusing down to only the "main" reason and ignoring all else will (as expected) miss the forest for the trees. This is a very strange presentation of this concept. You think that the "forest" is the ancilliary reasons? I would say that with zero subsidies people would still be driving cars and consuming fossil fuels. The only reasons not to are: pollution, and city space. They are unreasonably effective and useful compared to all other options. That's why people like them.