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Attilatheblond

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20. Same as happened with oil, gas, and coal. We subsidised* all that for over 100 years

Reply to dickthegrouch (Reply #3)

Tue Apr 28, 2026, 03:00 PM

Apr 28

but those industries like to raise bloody hell about us having to give some subsidies^^ to fledgling alternate energy development

*tax breaks, legislation making it easier for those industries to take land very cheap for their own benefit, foreign labor laws to help those industries, grants and other financial incentives over the decades, plus the foreign policies and even wars fought on behalf of energy company interests. Lives, Treasure, and the environment sacrificed to Oil, Gas, Coal production.

^^ some short term tax breaks, some grants, damned little else to help

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