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Saudi Arabia is driving a huge global investment plan to create demand for its oil and gas in developing countries, an undercover investigation has revealed. Critics said the plan was designed to get countries “hooked on its harmful products”.

Little was known about the oil demand sustainability programme (ODSP) but the investigation obtained detailed information on plans to drive up the use of fossil fuel-powered cars, buses and planes in Africa and elsewhere, as rich countries increasingly switch to clean energy.

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[-] ExLisper@linux.community 19 points 1 year ago

Great, we have the "what about X" comment. Now we just need "China pollutes more than US" and "I can't buy an EV because I drive 10.000 miles a day" comment and we can close this thread.

[-] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I commute to the moon and back uphill every single day. Battery power and ion drives just won’t cut it. That’s why I need a coal powered car.

[-] Sheeple@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's usually the other way around on the china argument. "but the USA does imperialism too!"

[-] Hyperreality@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

What about the 'building new cars is bad for the environment', 'EVs are expensive', 'I'd rather use a bike', or 'I'd prefer the government invested in affordable public transport, rather than subsidize the upper middle-class in buying an overpowered status symbol produced by a company run by an anti-semite' argument?

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