All I can think is that if you were to remove these subsidies, prices go up. When the prices go up which party is going to benefit by claiming look what the environuts have done... then you end up with moderates joining the extreme fringes and you get...
Sure you could say we can move that to clean energy but it just isn't that simple. Nothing is as simple as you would like it to be when it comes to government or big business.
All I can think is that if you were to remove these subsidies, prices go up. When the prices go up which party is going to benefit by claiming look what the environuts have done... then you end up with moderates joining the extreme fringes and you get...
Sure you could say we can move that to clean energy but it just isn't that simple. Nothing is as simple as you would like it to be when it comes to government or big business.