Your chance to do something!
Not that on-line petitions do that much good, but still...
http://www.avaaz.org/en/lets_get_back_o ... 61&v=13866
Some of Avaaz's links:
Fossil-fuel subsidies: Helping the richest get richer (Los Angeles Times)
Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies 'could provide half of global carbon target' (The Guardian)
Ending fossil fuel subsidies is 'no-brainer' says former Tory MP (Vancouver Sun)
Int’l Energy Agency wants governments to end subsidies for fossil fuels (Huffington Post)
especially for those who moan about subsidies
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emordnilap
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especially for those who moan about subsidies
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emordnilap
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Good man RC.
Imagine switching a trillion to subsidising renewables...
Mind you, a trillion is peanuts/chicken feed/small potatoes/a trifle compared to the amount of subsidy the nuclear industry has received simply to exist.
Imagine switching a trillion to subsidising renewables...
Mind you, a trillion is peanuts/chicken feed/small potatoes/a trifle compared to the amount of subsidy the nuclear industry has received simply to exist.
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cubes wrote:Yes, I can see the price gouging and profiteering!emordnilap wrote: Imagine switching a trillion to subsidising renewables...
You mean the fossil fuels industry doesn't? 
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I admit to getting a subsidy for our Solartwin. 
I would have bought it anyway, some time later.
The weather was cold and really windy yesterday - but we got absolutely loads of hot water from it.
I would have bought it anyway, some time later.
The weather was cold and really windy yesterday - but we got absolutely loads of hot water from it.
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Apologies; I'd forgotten they'd got into the pv game recently.woodburner wrote:Is your Solartwin a PV panel or a thermal panel? Is it multiple panels?
It's a single thermal panel.
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How much do you know about fossil fuel subsidies? Do the quiz here.
Subsidies of fossil fuels map here.
Subsidies of fossil fuels map here.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker