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MrScaryEgg t1_izsx83b wrote

> How is someone supposed to warm their home in the winter or fill their car with gas for work when you've taxed energy so drastically?

This question seems to be based on the misconception that energy = fossil fuels. The point such a tax would be to account for the true cost of using fossil fuels, rather than renewables, for energy.

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hellwisp t1_izswi60 wrote

I can't imagine taxes doing much. The price of fuel increased by 100% and I don't see anyone driving any less than they did.

There needs to be a drastic shift to other sources of energy.. a forced change that corporations can't avoid. The capitalist megacorps are responsible for all the environmental negligence humanity has done in the past two centuries.

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Taalnazi t1_izsw942 wrote

Well, for that you have to thank politicians who were deeeeep in the oil and gas pockets. They did nothing to construct clean energy stuff.

So now we are paying the price for that. No one of us wanted this, except for the greedy companies and some politicians.

You can wear thermo clothing. You can drive an electric car or bicycle and demand better infrastructure and public transport. Plenty of opportunities.

Not doing anything and crying about not having enough gas, which itself harms the climate, is not the solution.

The US has decreased some emissions, but far too few and little. It needs to go to zero.

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