An Irishman living by the beach in Aberdeen, Scotland. Making some people happy, occasionally annoying others. No interest in sport or football as a surrogate for bigotry. Not a pet person. I prefer the idea that animals should live independent lives. Ideally this should also apply to the people living in Scotland.
@wav3ydave @18107 @ajsadauskas If the consumer subsidy for environmental damage was taxed at the pump, the price of petrol, diesel, aviation fuel etc would immediately become expensive, + unaffordable. Demand would plummet. Oil companies would be unable to sell what they produce & leave it in the ground, run out of money to invest in further exploration. Government would also see tax receipts disappear. Shops run out of stock, prices soar. Industry grind to a halt.
@wav3ydave @18107 @ajsadauskas Very true, however public demands to “Leave it in the ground” and ending the “implicit subsidy” by not collecting the cost of environmental damage from fossil fuel end users, (and consequently not repairing the environmental damage) also removes the option for the systemic change needed.
If the oil production ceased tomorrow there would be panic, chaos, and fighting in the streets.
@18107 @ajsadauskas so the 100 million barrels of oil supplied, purchased by consumers and burned into the atmosphere every day has no effect on the climate. That’s good to know. I mistakenly thought my gas boiler, my petrol car and all the plastic I was putting into recycling was harming the planet. Phew. I’m off to fill up my tank.
@hamishb @wav3ydave @18107 @ajsadauskas When the UK government banned the purchase of Russian oil there was a slight decrease in availability of fuel at petrol stations. Queues formed, panic buying and constant topping up tanks occurred. The Saudi and Russian governments agreed to further reduce available supplies and prices soared. Even a small climate protest at refinery gates or a tanker driver strike brings the just in time system to crisis point.