Well the IMF thinks there are over a Trillion dollars of explicit subsidies every year. https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidies#A%20Globa

Well the IMF thinks there are over a Trillion dollars of explicit subsidies every year. https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidies#A%20Global%20Picture%20of%20Energy%20Subsidies https://www.imf.org/en/Topics/climate-change/energy-subsidie... And another 6 Trillion in implicit subsidies by ignoring the costs of local pollution etc. But yeah, if you categorically define something as "too hard" then it's too hard. Getting some percentage of that blood money back as campaign contributions and bribes is I'm sure not a factor, it's just those pesky voters to blame.