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Re:America's first big offshore wind farm sets record low price by imglorp on Thursday August 09, 2018 @09:42PM (#17730080)
Those are indirect costs, but on the cash side, don't forget the $5 trillion/yr in global fossil subsidies. US pays around $10-50 billion of that.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...

http://priceofoil.org/fossil-fuel-subsidies/

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Re:America's first big offshore wind farm sets record low price by c3534l on Thursday August 09, 2018 @09:50PM (#17730107)
You should read the articles you posted. They're redefining subsidy to mean:

> not only supply costs but also (most importantly) environmental costs like global warming and deaths from air pollution and taxes applied to consumer goods in general.

In other words, that $5 trillion is the indirect cost, not in addition to the indirect cost.

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