4 December

The reason fossil fuels appeared cheap for so long is that they’ve never been forced to pay for their pollution. This sort of thing, in the picture, has been going on for over 250 years, completely cost-free. An astronomical ongoing subsidy from taxpayers. The latest estimate for Australia is that this free pollution costs us over $65 billion per year. Add that back to the cost of using these fuels, and their price would at least double.