On: Solar-powered UK schools face an 800% tax increase

[AnthonyMouse]

> Many emerging markets countries subsidize the cost of gasoline and diesel at the retail level so that their citizens can afford it.

Which is still a petroleum subsidy. They could just give the citizens the equivalent amount of cash and then it wouldn't be.

[qeternity → AnthonyMouse]

What? Either way it's the same. Those people would just go use the cash to buy gasoline. It's the exact same thing.

[AnthonyMouse → qeternity]

It isn't. They could use cash to do something else where possible, like help pay for housing which is closer to where they work, or buy a computer so they can work from home, or buy a hybrid car etc.