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But we have numbers.

$7 trillion dollars of subsidies per year[1]. This doesn't include military budgets which is needed to protect the oil supply. 10 million deaths/year from air pollution[2]. We have deaths/TWH which shows fossil fuels are 1000x -2000x worse[3].

[1]https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuel-subsidies-2022

[2]https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/opinion/environment/air-p...

[3]https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...



Clicked in your first source. That “7 trillion” is a global number and already includes the writers speculations on the value of those other things

> The other 82 percent of fossil fuel subsidies were implicit. These included tax breaks for oil firms, but also the unpaid cost of climate change and air pollution as a result of burning fossil fuels.


So much subsidies, that governments in EU are putting 50%+ tax on gas and diesel.


And yet the increased costs still don't reflect the actual price of externalities, which is an implicit form of subsidy.





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