• Szymon@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    If Shell stops getting it from the government, they’ll just raise prices for us to make up the difference. They won’t be hitting their bottom line anytime soon

    • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 months ago

      If they’ve been subsidised so much, the company should just be made a public entity rather than just stopping the funding.

    • ThenThreeMore@startrek.website
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      8 months ago

      I thought Americans were all about free market. Other companies and alternatives will come in and undercut shell if that happens.

    • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf
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      8 months ago

      They’ll raise prices regardless. The government handouts are just extra profits for what is already one of the most profitable industries in the history of mankind.