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@johnwoodrow8769 Your claim is of no fossil fuel subsidies is idiotic. The fuel tax credit scheme allows businesses to claim a tax credit on fuel used in machinery, vehicles over 4.5 tonnes and vehicles not used on public roads. This tax breakdowns to make fuel use cheaper for energy-intensive businesses, such as coal mines. It is not available to other businesses and individuals that use machinery and vehicles for productive use. Fuel taxes are not linked to road funding, as is commonly suggested by morons as they simply contribute to general revenue, like most other federal taxation. Currently this scheme costs the taxpayer $7.76 billion a year and will rise to $11.29 billion in 2025-26. That is just the federal subsidies, all the states subsidise fossil fuels as well, in NSW for example $76.3 million has been allocated over 4 years to remediation of mine sites. The NSW Coal innovation fund spent $6.1million of taxpayers money on research that directly attributed to the coal industry. What is a shame is that no taxpayers money was spent subsidising your education in an attempt to make you less ignorant.
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EDF which is the French government owned corporation that runs the nuclear industry is in debt €65 billion. It is expensive and it requires massive government subsidies to make it affordable.
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@alanbentham2836 About $3 billion a year, but fossil fuel subsidies top $10 billion. I have no issue with nuclear power. It can be safe and relatively reliable. It will never be cheap.
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@johnwoodrow8769 Tax concession = government subsidy. NSW government $129 million to coal railway network in the Hunter. Federal government $217 million in roads for onshore gas industry. NAIF loan to Olive Downs coal mine $168 million and the Hudson Creek power station $37 million In Queensland $13.6 million to the Kogan gas fields. The Queensland government also allocated $30.3 million to the Kogan Creek power station. For an ash storage project at the Stanwell Power station another $50.4 million of taxpayers money. In WA the government allocated $141 million to the Pilbara and Fremantle ports that directly benefits the oil and gas sector. In SA the government has spent $30 million on a hydrogen hub at Port Bonython The list just goes on of government subsidies to the fossil fuel industry.
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