1.0Climate Change Dispatchhttps://climatechangedispatch.comThomas Richardhttps://climatechangedispatch.com/author/ccdeditor/The IMF's Absurd Calculations Of Fossil Fuel Subsidies: It's Really Not $2,200 For Every Americanrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="41JNVEovd6"><a href="https://climatechangedispatch.com/he-imf-s-absurd-calculations-of-fossil-fuel-subsidies-it-s-really-not-2-200-for-every-american/">The IMF’s Absurd Calculations Of Fossil Fuel Subsidies: It’s Really Not $2,200 For Every American</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://climatechangedispatch.com/he-imf-s-absurd-calculations-of-fossil-fuel-subsidies-it-s-really-not-2-200-for-every-american/embed/#?secret=41JNVEovd6" width="600" height="338" title="“The IMF’s Absurd Calculations Of Fossil Fuel Subsidies: It’s Really Not $2,200 For Every American” — Climate Change Dispatch" data-secret="41JNVEovd6" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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You can tell when there's one of these climate change conference things coming up. Every organisation in the world starts to come out with the most absurd estimations of how much climate change will cost us, how much we're subsidising those nasties over in the fossilFOSL -6.25% fuel industry and so on and on and on. And yes, at the end of this year all those climate campaigners get to fly off to Paris (lovely city, great place to hold a conference!) to try to tell us all how we must live our lives. As part of this process we've now got the IMF telling us that actually, we're all subsidising the use of fossil fuels by some vast amount and really, this just must stop. Yet their calculations are absurd. We must therefore put them over in the box marked "political propaganda" rather than that much more useful box marked "economic evidence for public policy".https://climatechangedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/images_pics8_cartoon_climate_conf_flying.jpg