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The One Climate Policy All 2024 Candidates Support Is Actually Terrible | Ethanol is a comically inefficient form of solar energy—and a toxic one. Solar panels would be better (newrepublic.com)
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[-] Wanderer@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Economists believe is something called externalities. Its very important and it corrects the market. If something is good for the world then you government needs to make it cheaper by subsiding it. If it's bad then their should be a tax on it. Economist gernally strongly support this but the public seem to be against this.

This here is giving money to farmers. It's basically the opposite of externalities. It's really stupid.

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