The happy death of petty idiocy

On the day the Government announced it was banning a thing I have called to be banned for very many years, I wrote a blog about the strange feeling of being told you’re wrong while knowing history will judge you to be right. https://powellds.medium.com/the-happy-death-of-petty-idiocy-4c245e649bb1 It always was completely and utterly loopy to say that we weren’t doing things like subsidising …

The looking-glass world of fossil fuel subsidies

The UK claims it doesn’t have any. It’s wrong, and anyway that’s not really the point. Original piece is in Business Green (paywall, free trial). https://www.businessgreen.com/opinion/2460331/the-looking-glass-world-of-fossil-fuel-subsidies Or you can read it here (NEF) So call things subsidy, or call them support; call them Susan if you like. If we’re making the economics of fossil fuels better today than they were yesterday, we’re …