Explicit subsidies accounted for only 8 percent of the total. The remaining 92 percent were implicit subsidies, which took the form of tax breaks or, to a much larger degree, health and environmental damages that were not priced into the cost of fossil fuels, according to the analysis. So not really!
Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, February 13, 2022, 7:01 AM, Jay Summet via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: On 2/11/22 17:22, Willie via EV wrote: > > On 2/11/22 5:04 PM, nathan christiansn via EV wrote: >> The only problem that I see with this is that the government is making >> people who do not support ev’s pay for ev charging. >> A government that is 28 trillion dollars in debt should not be spending >> billions of dollars that it does not hav I agree with the idea of limited government, but they should also stop subsidizing the oil industry (to the tune of 5.9 TRILLION, each year). https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuels-received-5-9-trillion-in-subsidies-in-2020-report-finds 7.5 billion over a few years to build out charging infrastructure and jump start EV adoption is nothing compared to that. Jay _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20220213/ccc45a18/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
