text: The fossil fuel industry is the most heavily subsidised industry in the world.
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  The cost of climate change is gargantuan: Check the payouts on crop, flood, tornado, hurricane - and the huge premium increases for insurance.
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  The cost of a highway system, and all of its upkeep; an entire system of law enforcement to support automobiles; the cost of death and injury; the cost of respiratory and other chronic illness; an entire system of essentially compulsory insurance.
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  The military cost of the fossil fuel industry - mostly paid by the US, but also by every member of NATO.  Aircraft carriers and troop deployments are incredibly expensive.
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  The cost of agency capture to our political system and institutions of democracy.  The GST cut, alone - made for the political benefit of the oil industry - has now cost over $ 140 billion.
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  All of it borne by the public.
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  These subsidies distort the market price, and tilt the balance against less harmful alternatives in the market.
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