So two weeks ago it was said that the fossil fuel sector received up to 37 billion in annual subisidies, but it turns out to be even more
The government always said it was around 4.5 billion per year, by the way
In perspective: making public transport free in NL is around 4 billion per year. Forgiving all the student debt of my generation, who have been royally fucked by it, would be around a 25 billion. There seems to be no money for this.
Without wanting to detract from this particular insanity, other countries have similar fossil fuel subsidies/ benefits, the article notes.
Yeah it seems we have finally found where all the money for healthcare, education, public transport, housing etc. is going to. Glad we have figured this out since our officials apparantly seem to not notice an amount of 10x of what they had in mind going to these companies
Sometimes 7 billion just drops off the ledger
