Should we put the size of the Norwegian oil fund on the petrol bowser instead of the price of petrol & litres filled?

Who is the bigger hypocrite? Norway for digging up the oil, or Europe for not taxing it beyond use?

It takes two to tango...

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https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/17/world/climate-hypocrites-uk-canada-norway-intl/index.html

Climate policy is based on territorial emissions, this should remain. Countries have legal jurisdiction over territorial emissions. Simple.

Extraction- or consumption-based emissions can play a complementary role, but countries have less agency.

2/ https://www.pnas.org/content/108/45/18554

Suppose you gave extractors responsibility. Then you are outsourcing your climate policy to Australia, Canada, Norway, Saudi Arabia, etc. How is that going to go?

It is like outsourcing your drugs policy to the drug seller. Yep, that will work...

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If you don't like the fact that countries make loads of cash out of selling you fossil fuels, then just don't buy the fossil fuels. It is actually that easy.

In any case, electric vehicles have lower life time costs, & zoom is much cheaper than airplanes & hotels.

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See all those arrows flowing into Europe & the US?

They are the imports of fossil fuels, which are then burnt in Europe & the US.

If the US & EU had strong enough climate policies, those arrows would vanish.

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https://www.pnas.org/content/108/45/18554

I have done loads of work on extraction- & consumption-based emissions over the years. Don't @ me.

Critique Australia, Canada, Norway, UK, etc, on their weak climate policies, but don't call them hypocrites because your country (US, EU) has insufficient climate policies.

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