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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

Guess it's time for CO² taxes on fuel/oil production and export, yes?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

As long as shell uses some of that money for lobbying that isn't going to happen

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

I'll never understand how lobbying became a thing. It should have been shut down as anti democracy the second it was proposed

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I also can't understand lobbying. To me, a non-US person, it just seems like legalized corruption.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 6 points 11 months ago

Because that's exactly what it is. It's a way for the rich to force the policies they want while quelching any policies they don't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

A shocking number of our laws are written by lobbyist. Like you can't import foreign cars unless they're the exact model sold in the US or over 25 years old, because of anti competive laws created by automotive lobby's.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It doesn't only happen in the US