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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/44153801
Denmark’s energy minister called on citizens to reduce their energy use amid the ongoing Middle East conflict.
Oil prices jumped to over $100 a barrel on Thursday, raising fears of rising inflation.
“If it is not strictly necessary to drive the car, then don’t do it,” the minister stressed to Danish citizens.
Seems to me that the answer here should be a substantial tax on petrol.
Which basically, exclusively punishes the lower class?
I’d prefer a tax on private jets and a subsidy to switch your car for an (electric) bicycle.
Perhaps, but we shouldn’t subsidise burning the planet.
Yes, but oh my goodness have you pondered the depths of that abyss. You can’t spell fossil fuels without subsidy. It’s just fo___l f_el_.
No, it hurts the status-seeking middle class, last I checked, lower class doesn’t really have a lot of cars.
Dunno about Denmark, but in my experience the higher class get to live wherever they want closer to their jobs, and probably own multiple cars they optionally drive short distances to show off.
Whereas the working everday folks gotta drive their 2008 Honda-of-Theseus MANY more miles in commute from outside the city, daily, hoping that expensive rattly motor mount can hold until pay week before it fails.
So taxing the heck out of fuel would hurt the working class a ton more.
Denmark has very good public transportation and bike networks.
The price of food is very dependent on the price of fuel. Poor people spend much much more of their income on food and other necessities that are driven by fuel costs and which cannot be done without.
I agree, but then this isn’t about fuel, but about subsidising logistics.
I don’t know what “this” you are talking about but the fact of the matter is that high fuel costs hurt the poorest most, and I don’t believe you have a meaningful solution to that.