Prices at the pump have leapt since the start of the conflict – but clinging to fossil fuels will only prolong the pain, says Berlin-based journalist Tania Roettger
For everyone who doesn’t know what exactly is happening:
So as a response to the rising fuel prices our government decided to subsidise fuel in order to give some form of price relief for its citizens. The funny thing is, that this subsidies were not enforced to be given down to the end consumers purchasing the fuel at the gas station. At the same time, fuel prices skyrocketed over night so that every single cent that might have been saved at the Gas station through the subsidies is gone, before a price relief even had the chance to take effect.
What’s even worse is, that this is not the first time this happened. In 2022 (when the Ukraine war caused a rapid rise in fuel prices) the exact same things happened.
For everyone who doesn’t know what exactly is happening:
So as a response to the rising fuel prices our government decided to subsidise fuel in order to give some form of price relief for its citizens. The funny thing is, that this subsidies were not enforced to be given down to the end consumers purchasing the fuel at the gas station. At the same time, fuel prices skyrocketed over night so that every single cent that might have been saved at the Gas station through the subsidies is gone, before a price relief even had the chance to take effect.
What’s even worse is, that this is not the first time this happened. In 2022 (when the Ukraine war caused a rapid rise in fuel prices) the exact same things happened.
See https://lemmy.world/comment/23514814.
“Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice… … won’t get fooled again” — some fascist war criminal
What do we call it when they fool us continuously for generations?
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