Comment on A fossil-fuel plant seeing nuclear coming...
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 23 hours agoOil and coal are cheap because its cost doesn’t include externalities…which in itself is a form of subsidy.
If we subsidized nuclear the same way, we could build plants faster and have cheaper energy.
Redjard@reddthat.com 10 hours ago
We should charge fossils for them, else we are just disadvantaging everything but fossil and nuclear.
Green doesn’t get subsidies either and still competes on price with fossils, and it does not have home solar (except arguably residential solar in some places).
A CO₂ tax has been demanded by lots of organizations over the years, but in the EU (and I presume elsewhere) has been repeatedly obstructed by fossil lobyists.