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0 pointswas_a_dev3y ago0 comments

Are renewables economically viable? I don't expect any nation that isn't "rich enough" to go green, but the trends of it becoming cheaper means it will become the cheapest means.

Are we there yet? My assumption was the political climate of Brazil was primarily pushing oil dependence

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matheusmoreira3y ago· 2 in thread

Current political climate seems to favor making gasoline cheaper for the poorest brazilian consumers at pretty much any cost. I've read that they want to uncouple local fuel prices from world wide market prices. They really want to wash off the bitter taste left by the utterly insane prices during the pandemic.

Thus their move will likely be to somehow dictate prices to Petrobras, profitability be damned. Petrobras stock has already taken several nosedives since this guy took office.

was_a_devOP3y ago

That makes sense. People in the UK want their energy prices to fall, at pretty much any cost at the moment

jon-wood3y ago

And frustratingly they could, if the current system of renewable wholesale prices being pinned to the most expensive, fossil fuel, prices were removed. There’s some complexity there because building of renewable generation is incentivised via being able to charge more for it, and therefore break even on the investment earlier, but it certainly seems like that would have been a better move than the government just outright subsidising massive price increases, thus transferring money directly from taxpayers who are feeling the pain of inflation to some of the richest companies in the world.

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