Mastodawn

As for oil, #PaulKrugman points out there's no way to significantly reduce oil usage in the short term, other than by reducing personal use of petrol-powered cars.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-to-burn-less-oil

Doing it on the supply side is prohibitive (you'd need fuel prices to increase by, say, 100-200 % in the USA; or, even less likely, ration fuel). On the demand side I guess you can pay people to commute by bike or public transport. Both options are probably cheaper than the usual #FossilSubsidies.

How to Burn Less Oil

Reducing our dependence should be easy. But it will be hard to do it fast.

Paul Krugman

Nemo_bis 🌈Dec 18

«More than 1,500 livestock farmers registered for the buyout schemes» in the #Netherlands.

«Europe has more than 24,000 "mega-farms" (facilities with 40,000 or more poultry, 2,000 or more fattening pigs, or 750 or more breeding sows)»
https://www.ftm.eu/articles/netherlands-payout-dutch-pig-giant-farming-policy

Yes it's expensive to reduce #FossilSubsidies, there are a lot of stranded assets. It only gets worse if you wait longer. Hopefully these livestock farm owners are being eased into retirement and the land can rest.

#EUpolicy #CAP #vegan

Huge payout to Dutch pig giant highlights cost of farming policy flip-flop

The Dutch government is spending billions of euros to buy out livestock farmers and cut nitrogen emissions. The owner of the Netherlands’ biggest pigsty, who once received subsidies to build his mega-barn, is being paid again to dismantle it. Critics say Dutch and EU agricultural policies are failing small farmers while green goals are watered down.

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Nemo_bis 🌈Dec 1

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

Nemo_bis 🌈Aug 24, 2025

«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

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Nemo_bis 🌈Jul 16, 2025

@corporateeurope *If* indeed the total funds for the CAP are going down (I'll believe it when I see it), why is this "a recipe for further ecological disaster"? The CAP is essentially a #FossilSubsidies scheme, which props up a very energy-intensive and carbon-intensive industry which would be best left to die. Therefore, any reduction in funds should directly translate to a reduction in emissions. (Unless it's compensated by national budgets.)

Nemo_bis 🌈Apr 29, 2025

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

Nemo_bis 🌈Mar 13, 2025

@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).

Nemo_bis 🌈Feb 9, 2025

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

Baltic states leave Russian power grid in closer EU integration

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania disconnected from Russia’s network on Saturday, ending energy dependency and aiding security

The Guardian

Nemo_bis 🌈Feb 7, 2025

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