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RaymondPierreL3

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Ring the ALARM Bells…. #Privatisation of public transport infrastructure ensures a decline in services and early retirement of infrastructure assets due to cuts made in order to produce profit for investors. Private enterprise strip the assets bare and then put their greedy little hands out for govt #subsidies to get them out of presumed financial trouble (no one is looking at their deep pockets full of stolen $$ here). It has always been so, it will always be so… what’s so hard to understand here? It plain old #StateTheft. Your tax money going straight into private pockets.

After, God I don’t know, one hundred years, govt still make the stupidest decisions and hand over public assets for ‘stripping’ by grifter mates…

Come on Aussies. Don’t vote those fuckers in again… Jezzzz…

RSSFeed MediaABC Feeds (@abcfeeds@rssfeed.media)Minister 'happy to consider' privatised rail and bus to Sunshine Coast By Josh Dye and Robert Burgin Queensland's transport minister says he is open to "investment from any party" to get the Sunshine Coast's multi-billion-dollar public transport system built before the 2032 Olympics. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-27/sunshine-coast-rail-bus-network-privatisation-fears/105101438 #Infrastructure #PublicTransport #TransportIndustry #OlympicGames #StateandTerritoryGovernment #FederalStateIssues #RoadTransportIndustry #RailTransportIndustry #JoshDye #RobertBurgin
#AusPol#AusElection25
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Jan Vlug

Filmvertoning: Food for Profit in #filmhuis #KINO, #Rotterdam, georganiseerd door #PvdD #ZuidHolland:

Woensdag 19 maart een exclusieve vertoning van #FoodforProfit – een #documentaire over hoe de #vleesindustrie, machtige lobby’s en Europese #subsidies samenkomen ten koste van #dieren, #natuur en #gezondheid.

Neem gerust een introducé mee. Vermeld dit bij je aanmelding: cloud.partijvoordedieren.nl/ap

Beelden in de docu kunnen als schokkend worden ervaren.

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quackademic

Local generation, storage & management of solar power is the way to go. State governments & local councils could be leading this.

Until then - why not use a wholesale provider like #Amber? Customers pay a monthly connection fee plus a subscription fee of $19, then buy & sell power at market rates. Households with solar systems have their output curtailed when feed in tariffs are negative (as happens often), export solar power when prices are positive, & if they choose to, export from battery when prices are high. You can allow the system to automate the process or you can control it yourself. This is cost effective for households that have a battery, although those with panels only may see no financial benefit compared to standard retail plans (it’s very difficult to compare relative costs of a curtailed system with those from the same system operating without curtailment, so wholesale plans don’t appear on cost comparison sites). For households with no solar, if you’re able to shift most of your usage to times when there’s lots of solar in the grid, costs are Way Way Cheaper. We did this before we had solar installed & the difference was Huge. If you need to cook dinner every evening or like to heat your house a lot, savings are not so much.

Whatever our situation, buying electricity #wholesale makes it immediately easy to see where our power is coming from & to make informed choices. It allow allows us to support the grid, & our neighbours.

#Subsidies to support households installing #batteries to back up new or existing systems, along with investment in local area generation & storage, would lower power costs for everyone while protecting the grid.

Why are we not doing this? Anyone?

Whose interests are served by keeping debate focused elsewhere?

#YeahRight #politics #policy #power #solar #electricity #CostOfLiving #AusPol

abc.net.au/news/2025-02-18/sol

ABC News · Solar households in virtual power plants a part of 'Australia's electricity future'By Daniel Mercer
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65dBnoise

After laying off thousands of employees (8% of #JPL's workforce) under the #Biden administration and putting on hold the #MSR mission, while favoring "space economy" (a euphemism for subsidizing the space industry) and calling upside-down moon landings and half baked private missions a "success", now

#NASA is being audited by their contractor #Musk and his DOGE team.

As conflicted as this may sound, that's today's reality in #USpol

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

#space#SpaceEconomy#subsidies
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Richard Ashwell

None of the current #CCS prototypes actually works and takes out more #CarbonDioxide #CO2 than it uses in #emissions to remove it. That's the problem. Which is why it is counter-productive now, and even if it does improve, in future will be a very expensive way to reduce emissions. But lots of big #FossilFuel companies get massive #subsidies from us tax payers to do it.

£22bn for 'unproven' green tech could raise bills, MPs warn

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8jpj

BBC NewsBillions risked on 'unproven' green tech, MPs warnThe Public Accounts Committee warns the government of gambling public money on carbon capture.
#AxeDrax#CCUS#CarbonCapture
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 **How much in subsidies do fossil fuels receive?**

_"Estimates range from less than $1 trillion to $7 trillion. Where do these numbers come from?"_

Hannah Ritchie (2025) - “How much in subsidies do fossil fuels receive?” Published online at OurWorldinData.org. Retrieved from: 'ourworldindata.org/how-much-su' [Online Resource].

#Data #DataViz #FossilFuels #Subsidies #Pollution #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment @climatechange

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hambach18

Here is an example of how fossil #car #subsidies look like:

"We threw the kitchen sink at INEOS. We offered to clean the site then give them the land for free, to build the factory, a £20million cash grant, a £100million capital allowance to offset against their corporation tax every year, massively reduced electricity rates, cash to train local workers, and a generous tax credit for research investment."

Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen, 2018-11
gazettelive.co.uk/business/bus
#ClimateCrisis

Teesside Live · Major car plant Ineos 'to shun Teesside' - reportsIt was thought that Ineos was considering the former SSI plant in Redcar for a factory building 4x4 vehicles
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Dave Mayhood

Canada's rightwing windup toy Pierre Poilievre believes Elon Musk can show Canada he can build an automobile manufacturing empire without any government subsidies.
cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.660
About that:
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#RightwingBullshit #Subsidies #ElonMusk #cdnpoli #BlitheringIdiot

CBCPoilievre responds to Elon Musk’s endorsementElon Musk has praised Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre online. When asked if he accepts the endorsement, Poilievre said it would be nice for Musk to open factories in Canada and create local jobs.
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ReallyCanadianFly

Written from the US perspective, but Alberta companies use the exact same playbook with the same orphaned wells and no cleanup plan. It's another example of just how heavily subsidized oil and gas is.

#oilandgascompanies #subsidies #environmentalcleanup #weakgovernments #lackofregulations #lackofresponsibility #Regulations

How Oil Companies Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public — ProPublica propublica.org/article/oil-orp

ProPublicaThe American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public
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