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Wait, how is this a hot take? We as taxpayers subsidize gas heavily. We know how bad internal combustion engines are for the environment. Our climate is causing catastrophic disasters at an increased scale and frequency. I think it's about time we begin to stop subsidising the oil & gas industry.
It is a hot take because a big chunk of the population takes a real QOL hit on every gas price increase. Even though I agree that gas should not be this cheap because we're subsidizing car dependence, I can understand that someone that has been cutting back on groceries due to recent gas increases might find this take fuming hot.
It has to be done, the sooner the better, but it does hurt some people out there who already have it rough.
Yeah two comments and both are refreshingly agreeable. I've shared this previously on reddit or twitter and responses are all "wow you hate the working class" or "there isn't a train from my apartment to my place of work so I need gas"