U.N. chief calls for an end to $7 trillion in fossil fuel subsidies
U.N. chief calls for an end to $7 trillion in fossil fuel subsidies
António Guterres, the secretary-general of the United Nations, called for an "Acceleration Agenda" in response to climate change.
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I scanned the article, and I often hear about this. Is there a list of the specific subsidies for fossil fuels?
I am happy to reach out to my Congress people as I donate to them, but they respond best to short and specific requests.
America, like Canada, subsidizes TF out of the oil companies to intentionally deflate the price of gas. Start looking there.
Also worth noting because it is still destructive, we subsidize TF out of corn too, to the detriment of other crops.
I don't think people realize how under-priced almost everything they purchase is, and it's all because of mass subsidies.
We need to end these subsidies but damn if people won't freak over their groceries even more.
Sounds like communism!
We all have an interest in overproducing crops. If, say, Florida becomes an aquarium, or there's a disease that wipes out a lot of a particular monoculture, we don't want a ridiculous spike in food prices (or worse).
So start subsidizing diversity in cultures? Better for ecology too.
- no tax on airplane fuel
Is a lack of tax really a subsidy?
I would think most of the subsidies are governments paying companies to extract it locally rather than import it from a cheaper country, so the country is less exposed to world events.
Where a non-subsidy version of this would be to tax the bollocks off any foreign imported fuels so it makes more sense to extract it locally.
Of course the reality is that most countries need both locally extracted and imported fuel to meet demand, and that you, the taxpayer, will be picking up the bill in either case.
It would be better for everyone if we just left that shit in the ground where it belongs, but we ain't there yet.