MrMakabar

A lot of it, is due to having waste products from refining crude oil, which could be turned into something usefull. So when you transition away from combustion engine cars, you increase the costs of other oil based products.

There are too many connections as to believe that this is just passive support. Hamas knows it gets support from Israel and both sites benefit from it. Hamas itself is a deeply corrupt and downright evil organization, which is hated in Gaza for torture, rape and destroying public services. They need the big enemy Israel to justify them being in charge.

Israel or better Netanyahu and his fellow fascists need Hamas to stop peace talks with the Palastinians. If there is a genuine peace in the region, he would almost certainly loose elections. Kind of a similar situation to Hamas really.

Does Canada have something like CBAM as well?

73.4% not 69%. 26.6% is fossil fuels.

CBAM is working!!!!

https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy_pie/chart.htm?l=en&c=EU&interval=year

So having 100€ savings in a year for a 200€ panel is a bad deal for you? Seriously 200€ is cheap enough for nearly all German households to afford them. What you are essentially doing is give most German households the ability to produce their own power, greatly enhancing fair power distribution, lower the electricity bill for them and give valuable capital most of the population. The only draw back is that they produce 30-50% less electricity, but forcing that would mean that you support big corporations building those solar panels, which only helps the rich.

There are 2360 dollar billionaires in the world and 211,275 people with a net worth of over 30 million dollars. The 100 super-rich families are way to few.

Other then that we could do something like CBAM. Every country without a wealth tax has to pay extra tarrifs, for all goods and products sold to countries that are members. Get the US, EU or China on board with that and we will say a lot more taxes. Tax heavens can be bullied.

Most oil is consumed in the transportation sector. So going to EVs and lowering the number of cars is enough to make a huge dent in refined products. Refineries can only lower production to something like 80% of full capacity. Obviously an option is to export the gasoline and diesel, but that increases transport costs. So it will always have a problem in competing with local refineries. Hence they are going to go bankrupt.

As for the workers most of the refineries are in greater LA or the Bay Area. The problem will be the Bakersfield refineries.

Neither the US has only a few states with a phase out of fossil fuel vehicles being legally binding. The UK has nothing whatsortever. The EU seems to go for a different startegy with a sales ban in law starting 2035, while many EU countries banned fracking, which could be used to produce a large share of the local oil consumption.

That is true of every generation. Call it a human flaw.

Flying is one of the most emitting activities in the world. For many Europeans it will be 20% of their carbon footprint for a single vacation.