They’re artificially expensive. The US is a net EXPORTER of oil.
Is all just a bunch of fucking bullshit, everyone.
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ftbd@feddit.org 2 days ago
Awww, did someone get addicted to unsustainable energy sources that are artificially cheap due to externalized costs?
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
ftbd@feddit.org 1 day ago
No, it’s not. We all know that we cannot afford to put any more CO2 into the atmosphere. So reasonably, any new CO2 that is emitted would have to be (permanently) removed via carbon capture. That would be the true cost of emitting CO2, but instead, these effects are externalized to global society as a whole, making gas at the pump artificially cheap by cheating everyone else.
Teppa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What’s the alternative, an addiction to Chinese made solar panels and batterys?
rogsson@piefed.social 2 days ago
Don’t worry, they’ll figure out the “no tomorrow” part soon enough
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
No the oil lobby is forcing it upon us. We try to get renewables but they are being destroyed by idiots.