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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Lucky for us we have not been paying for imagined environmental damage. And it doesn't look we will ever have to.
What did you actually think they would use that money to fix the environment? Ha.
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We've been paying for it, that's for sure - look at the BP oil spill, for starters. Or, some of the healthcare costs that get paid for by fuel taxes in other countries. Or the air quality in some major cities in the US.
(Even if the money isn't being directly used to internalize those externalities (and in some cases it can't), it discourages fuel consumption, which reduces the pollution anyway.)