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In the EU we were mixing bio fuels into gasoline and diesel.
Which was a li’l bit more expensive.
So here in Sweden, the right-wing gov’t decided to lower those proportions, down to 6%.
That led to increased emissions by 4 million metric tons per year, the equivalent of one Nord Stream explosion every four years (or every three and a half years, even).
Now, they wanna raise it again to 10%, which, even though that is just a third of what we used to have, still would be a atep in the right direction. Except they’re also gonna subsidize the fuels to keep costs the same. That means free money for fossil corporations.
This is what we get when economists are scoffing at externalities. The climate-wrecking impacts of fossil fuels are already not factored in. With this new approach, it’s reverse factored in. We’re subsidizing what we should’ve been stopping. This is why I think of voting for these grifters as a “political tipping point”. If the delayists get too entrenched we’re toast. We’ll have the cheapest transportation on the cinder.