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This is good news

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May 16, 2024, 11:52 AM
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https://x.com/john_mcguirk/status/1791053587822350699?s=46&t=A2ebU1-1g77PAArQxgNMqw

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May 16, 2024, 11:53 AM
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Where are they with oil and coal subsidies?

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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.
- Jonathan Swift


Re: This is good news

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May 16, 2024, 11:56 AM
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Oh, here's an answer. Should they cut these, too?

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/dutch-firms-get-up-49-bln-annually-fossil-fuel-subsidies-report-2023-09-19/

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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.
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Why? Cheap, abundant energy helps everyone.***

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May 16, 2024, 12:09 PM
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Tom says energy subsidies are bad.***


May 16, 2024, 12:12 PM
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.
- Jonathan Swift


I didnt say it was perfect. All subsidies are bad. But these are less bad than

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May 16, 2024, 1:06 PM
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The “green” BS

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Why are oil subsidies not as bad as heat pump and insulation subsidies?***


May 16, 2024, 1:17 PM
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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.
- Jonathan Swift


First of all, the oil subsidies probably arent subsidies, they are probably tax

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May 16, 2024, 1:51 PM
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Breaks. Either way, if you have any understanding of the modern economy at all, it is patently obvious why lessening the cost of oil is better.

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May 16, 2024, 3:23 PM
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Neither of those sentences explains anything, but the effort was pretty good.

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Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.
- Jonathan Swift


Tax breaks (finite program) are not close to subsidies (theoretically infinite)

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May 18, 2024, 5:03 PM
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Actually, Tom explained it very well.

Subsidies are not taxes. Subsidies are moneys provided by an entity (in the case of The Netherlands, government money via taxation of Dutch citizens) to make some product or service artificially cheap.

Tax breaks are allowances which the government grants to an entity in which the seizure of funds (I.e. taxes) is less than that which is applied to another entity.

Tax breaks for an entity are limited to the total amount of taxes which the government would otherwise extract from the entity.

Thus, tax breaks are finite.

Subsidies, on the other hand, are essentially unlimited, with the only limit being the amount of money that the government has + the amount of money that a government can borrow to keep the subsidized entity viable.

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Re: First of all, the oil subsidies probably arent subsidies, they are probably tax

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May 18, 2024, 5:06 PM [ in reply to Re: First of all, the oil subsidies probably arent subsidies, they are probably tax ]
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Also, the Sept 2023 Reuters article that you had linked explained that the Dutch ‘subsidies’ for fossil fuels were actually tax breaks, not subsidies.

(Thanks for the link.)

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Too bad we passed the Green New Deal. They will invade us in a few years.***

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May 16, 2024, 12:17 PM
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The Dutch will invade us? How? Bomb us withTulips?

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May 16, 2024, 1:31 PM
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What is with you that you are are afraid that literally everyone is "invading" us?

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What Will Greta Do?***

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May 16, 2024, 1:12 PM
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If she's a hollerer, she'll be a screamer.
If she's a screamer, she'll get you arrested.


Re: What Will Greta Do?***


May 18, 2024, 5:22 PM
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The Swedish climate activist once decried nuclear energy as being “extremely dangerous, expensive, and time-consuming.” Her views seem to have changed in tandem with recent trends in public opinion as she recently argued that Germany shutting down its nuclear plants was a “mistake.” Thunberg, alongside other climate ...Apr 3, 2023

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May 18, 2024, 5:08 PM
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As a country they get half of their energy from renewable energy. The issue is probably very nuanced. They aren't scrapping renewble energy.

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