There are all sorts of subsidies available for a multitude of things this one pales into insignificance compared with the cost of a war and few ships not to mention a railway line.
Maybe so but they soon mount up. Small thing here, small thing there, eventually turns into a big thing. HS2 needs cancelling right this second.
I think in the long term we need weening of oil based fuels.
Always a catchy strapline but unthrottled has hit on the bigger point in that fossil fuels power our electricity generation. There's no point in 'weening off oil fuels' if it just results in us freezing to death in an impoverished cave, which seems to be the EU's long term plan. Don't even get me started on 'carbon credits' and using farmland to produce petrol - on a starving planet - with plenty of oil at the bottom of the sea!
The fact is we didn't start drilling for oil because the Government told us to. Wind turbines would never survive in a genuine free market without their grotesque subsidy and the electric car would currently see zero takeup if but for Governmental gerrymandering.
If we took away Government meddling - including taxes - we'd have petrol at around 60p a litre. Diesels would mostly be confined to high mileage fleet sales and only a rich nerd would buy an electric car - if they were even for sale. Government will not solve our problems, they only cause them.
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