Tax deductions for expenses are considered “subsidies” by the left for hydrocarbon energy.
This “report” will just arm the little Grubers when they talk about the costs of energy.
Increasing costs for real energy will kill many more than who supposedly die from pollution.
Yep, while the “subsidies” to “green energy” are government grants of taxpayer money, most of which disappears down the rat hole.
Only the science ignorant could believe this statement.
There is no way to quantify the number of deaths caused by pollution. In places like Beijing or Mexico City it is likely that people with underlying diseases like asthma have their death hastened by air pollution but to attribute their deaths totally to pollution is inaccurate at best. Then to go further and to postulate based on those deaths in pollution hell holes that you can deduce pollution deaths worldwide based on that scanty data is simply scientific malpractice. You need data to make statements like that and their simply can not be any to support that statement because people do not life in plastic bubbles where you can say this person died of pollution.
They also envisage that making fossil fuel companies pay for pollution would be a “game changer” for governments, who could use the newly released economic resources to pay for education, health and infrastructure.
No what that would be is a highly regressive tax on the poor. Energy prices “would necessarily skyrocket” under this plan. Energy would be priced out of the range of the poor’s ability to pay. The poor would be condemned to jobs within their walking distance, burning cow patties for cooking, living without electric lights. In essence the poor would be returned to the Stone Age.
These people do not care about the poor or public health it is all about power.