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Could you list the subsidies you're against? All I ever find is general business items or for non-conventional fuels.
by meragrin 11y ago
Could you list the subsidies you're against? All I ever find is general business items or for non-conventional fuels.
- mikeash 11y agoThis isn't what people normally mean when they refer to subsidies, but the fact that fossil fuel users are allowed to contaminate everyone's air is effectively a massive subsidy for their operations. If the cost of the CO2 and pollution were paid by those producing it, this stuff would be way more expensive.
- davegardner 11y agoThe IMF recently published a working paper[1] on energy subsidies at global and regional levels that might be of interest. They do use an fairly broad definition of what counts as a subsidy (including cost of damages environmental damages and global warming effect of CO2 emissions). [1] http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.aspx?sk=42940.0 http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/cat/longres.aspx?sk=42940.0
- toomuchtodo 11y agohttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/18/fossil-fuel-companies-getting-10m-a-minute-in-subsidies-says-imf http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/18/fossil-fu...