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Given U.S. #consumption is so important globally (two-thirds bigger than #EU consumption!) the #world 's #governments have now few options to counter #Trump 's #trade #war : #state #subsidies to impacted sectors and #economic or #fiscal stimulus to avoid #recession (both triggering higher public #debt ), counter-tarrifs, and new free-trade agreements with other countries. In most cases it will be a mixture of all and reconfigure #global trade flows and #market mecanisms.

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Ring the ALARM Bells…. #Privatisation of public transport infrastructure ensures a decline in services and early retirement of infrastructure assets due to cuts made in order to produce profit for investors. Private enterprise strip the assets bare and then put their greedy little hands out for govt #subsidies to get them out of presumed financial trouble (no one is looking at their deep pockets full of stolen $$ here). It has always been so, it will always be so… what’s so hard to understand here? It plain old #StateTheft. Your tax money going straight into private pockets.

After, God I don’t know, one hundred years, govt still make the stupidest decisions and hand over public assets for ‘stripping’ by grifter mates…

Come on Aussies. Don’t vote those fuckers in again… Jezzzz…

RSSFeed MediaABC Feeds (@abcfeeds@rssfeed.media)Minister 'happy to consider' privatised rail and bus to Sunshine Coast By Josh Dye and Robert Burgin Queensland's transport minister says he is open to "investment from any party" to get the Sunshine Coast's multi-billion-dollar public transport system built before the 2032 Olympics. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-27/sunshine-coast-rail-bus-network-privatisation-fears/105101438 #Infrastructure #PublicTransport #TransportIndustry #OlympicGames #StateandTerritoryGovernment #FederalStateIssues #RoadTransportIndustry #RailTransportIndustry #JoshDye #RobertBurgin

Filmvertoning: Food for Profit in #filmhuis #KINO, #Rotterdam, georganiseerd door #PvdD #ZuidHolland:

Woensdag 19 maart een exclusieve vertoning van #FoodforProfit – een #documentaire over hoe de #vleesindustrie, machtige lobby’s en Europese #subsidies samenkomen ten koste van #dieren, #natuur en #gezondheid.

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Local generation, storage & management of solar power is the way to go. State governments & local councils could be leading this.

Until then - why not use a wholesale provider like #Amber? Customers pay a monthly connection fee plus a subscription fee of $19, then buy & sell power at market rates. Households with solar systems have their output curtailed when feed in tariffs are negative (as happens often), export solar power when prices are positive, & if they choose to, export from battery when prices are high. You can allow the system to automate the process or you can control it yourself. This is cost effective for households that have a battery, although those with panels only may see no financial benefit compared to standard retail plans (it’s very difficult to compare relative costs of a curtailed system with those from the same system operating without curtailment, so wholesale plans don’t appear on cost comparison sites). For households with no solar, if you’re able to shift most of your usage to times when there’s lots of solar in the grid, costs are Way Way Cheaper. We did this before we had solar installed & the difference was Huge. If you need to cook dinner every evening or like to heat your house a lot, savings are not so much.

Whatever our situation, buying electricity #wholesale makes it immediately easy to see where our power is coming from & to make informed choices. It allow allows us to support the grid, & our neighbours.

#Subsidies to support households installing #batteries to back up new or existing systems, along with investment in local area generation & storage, would lower power costs for everyone while protecting the grid.

Why are we not doing this? Anyone?

Whose interests are served by keeping debate focused elsewhere?

#YeahRight #politics #policy #power #solar #electricity #CostOfLiving #AusPol

abc.net.au/news/2025-02-18/sol

ABC News · Solar households in virtual power plants a part of 'Australia's electricity future'By Daniel Mercer

After laying off thousands of employees (8% of #JPL's workforce) under the #Biden administration and putting on hold the #MSR mission, while favoring "space economy" (a euphemism for subsidizing the space industry) and calling upside-down moon landings and half baked private missions a "success", now

#NASA is being audited by their contractor #Musk and his DOGE team.

As conflicted as this may sound, that's today's reality in #USpol

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🔴 **How much in subsidies do fossil fuels receive?**

_"Estimates range from less than $1 trillion to $7 trillion. Where do these numbers come from?"_

Hannah Ritchie (2025) - “How much in subsidies do fossil fuels receive?” Published online at OurWorldinData.org. Retrieved from: 'ourworldindata.org/how-much-su' [Online Resource].

#Data #DataViz #FossilFuels #Subsidies #Pollution #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment @climatechange