• Lovely_sombrero [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    17 days ago

    IMO they would rise hand in hand anyway, because there is money to be made. Biden’s “climate plan” is just about throwing more money at private companies to increase their profits. Even stuff that is directed at the consumer side of things, like EV car subsidies just allows car companies to keep prices higher than they would otherwise be. It is all funneled into private pockets, without even doing the thing that is usually the selling point of these kind of bills under capitalism - lower prices for consumers.

    The “Biden climate plan” also enshrined fossil fuels as policy, it includes a provision that for every X of new clean energy, the same amount of fossil fuel permits have to be given out by the US government.