This week the far-right gov’t of Sweden cut an off-shore wind farm and subsudized the flight industry.
Not just out of some “flight tax is theft” rhetoric but for the explicit purpose of increasing the amount of air travel (“for growth”). Airline industry celebrated the decision.
As for the wind slash, that they justified by saying nuclear power is better and will fix it. Why not both? The wind farm would’ve provided the equivalent of several nuclear power plants.
Energiminister Ebba Busch försvarar regeringens politik med att andra havsbaserade vindkraftsprojekt uppenbarligen säger sig klara sig utan statens hjälp med elkablar ut till havs.
Yeah, but this was a gov’t owned wind farm. Denmark and Germany both did hook up these cables on their end so Sweden is the outlier there. Wind farms have their own suit of ecological issues so the fact that this was a colocation with those countries would’ve been great.
They’ve given the airline industry and gasoline industry billions. Subsidizing fossils but not wind. Other wind farms are often shut down by the military. We haven’t seen any of the nuclear plants and won’t for many years. I don’t oppose that they’re heavily subsidizing the nukes but the fact that they’re willing to do that makes it weird when they’re shutting down cheaper and faster-to-market and more renewable power sources.
All of these political decisions taken together—cutting gasoline prises, cutting air plane ticket prices, shutting down wind power, betting everything on super expensive, subsidized, vaporware nuke plants—it’s gotta be one of two reasons:
It’s different for the sake of being different. If the left follows the science then the right deliberately tries to go with a different strat. Deliberately anti-scientific.
Or they’re deliberately trying to bring the end of the world about. Corruption and lobbying even when that can no longer justifiably be draped in “free market” rhetoric.
Busch used the rhetorics that other EU countries have a lower flight tax than we had. This is textbook delayism. Sweden was one of the top three countries in the entire world on climate change. That was a good thing, not a bad thing.
Busch said:
Det handlar om att vi vet att det är få svenskar och företagare som okynneskör.
Okynneskör (pronounced “Ocean is sure”, with a “DAM dada DAAM” melody) is such a Swedish word, it means “driving a car for the hell of it”, and in her quote she’s saying that Swedes don’t typically do that. No (or probably yes, since she didn’t back up her claim with data), but we do know that the gasoline industry are drilling for profit and are looking for every excuse to sell.