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Presumably Romanian electricity is expensive because non-Russian gas is expensive.

I was about to say, the economics of this post don't really add up. And sadly, we have a living example behind your computer screen.

That doesn't change the way lemmy works. "Someone said something supportive of the thing we like. So it must be true." Too bad economics doesn't work that way.

If you want things to be cheap, you pit fossil fuel against green energy in real competition. Then they are both forced to get as cheap as possible at every layer of their supply chains if they want their respective supply chains to continue. That's what kills profit and greed because they have to give up short-term greed for a shot at long-term survival. When you give either or both a government crutch, the executives involved try to reap as much cash out of that crutch now while the crutch exists.

Whether you give a crutch to either fossil fuel or green energy, at the end of the day you are giving it to an executive. He's going to take advantage of it and not give you what you want every time.

Do you guys remember the incentives for rural internet rollout? Now they are paying premium cost for crapy internet, which the government already paid to exist. It doesn't matter how much you agree with the thing you want money to go to, you aren't going to get a good outcome.