Whew. Good thing we are making absolutely sure those pile of shit students pay back their loans though. How else would we be able to cover these super important subsidies!
Suggestion: let’s stop subsidizing oil companies.
It’s bonkers to me that one would subsidize an insanely profitable business sector. Smells like straight up corruption and stealing from public to private interests.
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How long would it take us to be carbon neutral if we took all that and put it in green energy?
Not an economist. My guess, 2 -4 years. Cut subsidies to oil, methane, natural gas. Incentivize and subsidize renewables. The market reacts quickly.
If you want to pay for the new stove, furnace, water heater, and the electric upgrades I’d need for that, please do. I picked gas over electric because I didn’t have the wiring necessary to get electric. If it was cost effective to go with electric, I would.
That’s the idea. 7 trillion dollars per year is a lot of money and that stuff is where some of it would go.
Who would have thought
Sell your cars and buy bikes: give up gasoline.
That would be nice, but I, and many people, live too far from work to be able to bike and there is no public transportation in most of North America.
Can I ask how far you live from work? I’ve always tried to keep my commute distance short because I hated the time I wasted driving. Eventually I sold my car for a bike and have been much happier.
A lot of north American cities are too expensive to live close to the business district so people live further out in the suburbs. With limited public transportation. So a lot of people would need to find new jobs or get raises for that to work.
Google maps says 25 miles. It takes me a little more than 30 minutes to drive. It would take 2 hours, 22 minutes by bike.
But what would we do with the money we save from road construction? /s
These implicit subsidies seem somewhat dubious to me, frankly.
