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- From: mwilson@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM (Mark Wilson)
- Newsgroups: sci.energy
- Subject: Re: Petroleum subsidies question. (was Re: Renewable energy from the sun
- Message-ID: <10512@ncratl.AtlantaGA.NCR.COM>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 14:19:06 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.171522.1259@access.usask.ca> <kline.721495564@well.sf.ca.us> <PW5SB77G@cc.swarthmore.edu>
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- In <PW5SB77G@cc.swarthmore.edu> dpeders1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Pedersen) writes:
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- |>Does anyone out there have any figures or an estimate of the amount of
- |>subsidies (direct or indirect) for oil and fossil fuels? I know that the
- |>price of gasoline is <half of what it is in the rest of the industrialized
- |>world. I'm convinced that the price of oil here is subsidized, but I can't
- |>back that up. The best I can say is that there should be a higher tax on
- |>petroleum, but that isn't really a subsidy.
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- So you believe that not taxing something is the same as giving it a subsidy?
- The reason European gas is so much more expensive than US gas is the taxes
- on it.
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- Mob rule doesn't become any prettier, just because the mob start to call itself
- a government.
- It ain't charity if you are using someone else's money.
- Mark.Wilson@AtlantaGA.NCR.com
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