Re:Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK govern...
by samatman on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:02PM
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Spherical frictionless cows in a vacuum are unable to move.
There's always thumbs on the scale. Grandparent is proposing to remove some thumbs (fossil fuel subsidies).
Pigovian taxes are fairly popular among people who consider free markets to be valuable. This is because they retain $free = "can discover prices and conduct trade freely", a more valuable property than $free = "utterly free of any and all governance", which, like real communism, has never been tried.
There's always thumbs on the scale. Grandparent is proposing to remove some thumbs (fossil fuel subsidies).
Pigovian taxes are fairly popular among people who consider free markets to be valuable. This is because they retain $free = "can discover prices and conduct trade freely", a more valuable property than $free = "utterly free of any and all governance", which, like real communism, has never been tried.