Alternative title: fossil fuel company defends #FossilSubsidies.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/eon-chief-urges-germany-deprioritize-wind-solar-grid-connections-2025-12-01/

Fossil fuels still account for 40 % of electricity production in #Germany (and 80 % of total energy).
https://www.iea.org/countries/germany

Any claim that we don't need new renewable power to be connected to the grid is a thinly veiled attempt to jack up energy prices and the value of legacy assets. Are politicians stupid enough (or corrupt enough) to (pretend to) fall for it?

#EnergyCrisis

981 #ClimateEmergency #FossilSubsidies #TaxPayersForLobbiests

And is your gasoline even cheaper ?
Trump ask for money and 'they' gave it
and they got it [have beengetting it for decades]
Now what is it ? Are y'all thát stupid ?

"Big Oil’s Dirty Secret" [4:56 min]
by Robert Reich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDQXiNlM5iM

Quote by RR:
"Sep 9, 2025
Energy prices are soaring. So what is Trump doing about it?
Gutting clean energy projects while showering his Big Oil donors with billions of dollars in special tax breaks."

#USriseUp #FascistsAreHere
#TimeToResist #FightOligarchy
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#EducateYourself on #ClimateBreakDown

«Trump may be trying to protect polluters from liability through his legally questionable executive orders, but some of his party’s own lawsuits could actually help expose them instead. For climate advocates, it’s a reminder: the fight for our planet will be waged in legislatures, courtrooms and, occasionally, in the very legal battles meant to undermine it.»
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/5465722-gop-lawsuits-coal-industry/

Fun times...

#coal #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #FossilSubsidies

A rare case of an IMF bailout doing something good (removal of #FossilSubsidies in #Pakistan)?

«Pakistan sharply raised power and gas tariffs to support struggling suppliers in the heavily-indebted sector. Pakistanis now pay more than a quarter more on average for electricity. [...] Solar made up over 14% of Pakistan's power supply last year, up from 4% in 2021 and displacing coal as the third-largest energy source.»

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/pakistans-solar-revolution-leaves-its-middle-class-behind-2025-04-29/

#renewables #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

@mario The flip coin is that these fleets are much easier to change. You could offer incentives conditioned on a 10-20 % reduction in the fleet, for example. Employees losing "their" car could buy out the previous one, so they wouldn't necessarily be unhappy.

Any incentives for cars are nevertheless #FossilSubsidies, so they need to be matched but at least equal incentives for public transport schemes (e.g. season tickets for employees).

Reuters does propaganda in such a way, I can't even be mad at them:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/08/baltic-states-leave-russian-power-grid-in-closer-eu-integration

1 paragraph update of the day, 15 paragraphs of filler, 1 final paragraph with the actual facts. Skip the middle and you get the news: 3 billion dollars spent on additional fossil infrastructure to make power grids more fragile.

How wonderful, I'm delighted by our successful cooperation between humans in the face of #ClimateChange.

#FossilSubsidies #EnergyCrisis

Ah yes, more #FossilSubsidies. Just what we needed for the #EU budget.

«The same EU official said that one option currently under consideration in Brussels is for the EU to subsidize purchases of LNG for countries that currently rely on Russian gas, paying them any difference in price to switch to a U.S. supplier.»

https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-us-eu-trade-surplus-bloc-brussels-services-trade-donald-trump-lng/

#EnergyCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Did someone model what it would take to apply a #CarbonTax on meat and dairy, to be paid by big retailers and wholesalers and balanced by income-tested cash transfers to families?

I found a 2021 literature review by RL Pinto but it doesn't address the actual mechanics.
https://doi.org/10.21814/unio.7.2.4033

Germany has shown people can quickly change food habits in an #EnergyCrisis. We must do better than energy import bans and #FossilSubsidies.
https://www.eitfood.eu/news/consumers-cut-back-on-costs-to-cope-with-rising-prices-and-food-shortages-in-europe
https://www.just-food.com/features/why-germanys-meat-consumption-decline-is-more-than-just-a-people-thing/

#ClimateCrisis