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You missed the most important part, in which you pay for all this (directly or indirectly).
by Ray20 6mo ago
You missed the most important part, in which you pay for all this (directly or indirectly).
- rainsford 6mo agoWhy do you think anybody was operating under the assumption that this was free? But keeping your car topped up now is hardly free either, especially lately, so the question is really about cost comparison. And that's before you get into any externality costs.
- Ray20 6mo ago> so the question is really about cost comparison Yes, and I was talking specifically about the cost of this difference.
- Y-bar 6mo agoAs opposed me paying indirectly and directly for all the subsidies for the petroleum industry? > Global explicit subsidies for fossil fuels amounted to around $1.5 trillion in 2022. […] The $7 trillion figure includes the social and environmental costs of fossil fuels. https://ourworldindata.org/how-much-subsidies-fossil-fuels https://ourworldindata.org/how-much-subsidies-fossil-fuels
- Ray20 6mo agoThe article you linked literally talks about fuel subsidies in the UK aimed at reducing the final cost of electricity for households and its vulnerability to rising of fissile fuel prices. In the UK. A country that was one of the first to transition to renewable energy sources and which currently has one of the most expensive electricity prices. And then, to these "subsidies", losses from "road incidents" are added as other subsidies for fossil fuels. Sorry, this is very difficult to perceive as an argument, it is literally designed for degenerates without education, who have difficulty understanding the meaning of words put together in sentences, and who, for this reason, evaluate any text by the presence of already familiar slogans in it