| ▲ | incrudible 3 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
If you say "$7 trillion to be exact" and then reduce that to $1 trillion in a followup, the number you initially gave is bogus. I don't care to figure out exactly how much of that number is similarly misleading, but the article you quoted gives $20 billion for the US in 2022, or 0.3% of the federal budget that year. I don't support these (actual) subsidies, but clearly such numbers are not game changers when the average American spends 10% of their income on energy. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | leptons 3 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I never said "$7 trillion to be exact", that was someone else. The fact is that any subsidies to fossil fuel companies is wrong. They don't need it, and petroleum use in almost all industries is ruining the planet. | |||||||||||||||||
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