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Re:‘Insanely cheap energy’: solar power continues to shock t... by lostlogin on Saturday April 24, 2021 @07:00PM (#26928937)
Isn’t the damage to climate and health arguably a subsidy to big oil? While they get that damage for free, of course they win.
Re:‘Insanely cheap energy’: solar power continues to shock t... by wizzwizz4 on Sunday April 25, 2021 @03:41PM (#26935906)
Actually, they wouldn't win; many renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels nowadays. Though this is a good point; we need to factor “stealing from the future” and other externalities into the price somehow, if we are to use a capitalist market. (Hence carbon taxes, rather than carbon subsidies, should be government policy.)