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Cake day: August 26th, 2024

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  • No, it’s not. We all know that we cannot afford to put any more CO2 into the atmosphere. So reasonably, any new CO2 that is emitted would have to be (permanently) removed via carbon capture. That would be the true cost of emitting CO2, but instead, these effects are externalized to global society as a whole, making gas at the pump artificially cheap by cheating everyone else.


  • ftbd@feddit.orgtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldMeanwhile in California
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    15 days ago

    Awww, did someone get addicted to unsustainable energy sources that are artificially cheap due to externalized costs?

    Edit: For context, the highest price shown in this picture is still 32% cheaper than gas was in Germany BEFORE your genius president decided to start a war, and around 42% cheaper than it is now. And seeing as we’re still burning fossils like there’s no tomorrow, it is apparently not nearly expensive enough yet.