⟳ Репост от David Fickling
Show this chart to anybody who tries to tell you clean energy needs government subsidies. Nobody mops up your tax dollars quite like that poor, suffering fossil fuel industry ($1.3 trillion in profits since 2021) Gift link to @davidfickling.bsky.social's column: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Who’s Really Keeping Fossil Fuels Alive? TaxpayersTo judge by the way many people discuss the energy transition, we’re engaged in a fight between green idealogues in government and academia on the one hand, and a more realistic private sector that re...www.bloomberg.comRob CarlsonBy @davidfickling.bsky.social "If you combine the value of public investment and public subsidies, about 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that had climbed to 68% and spiked as high as 78% in 2022." Good chart. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...