<story><title>Taxpayers may have to pay $280B in plugging costs for oil and gas wells</title><url>https://carbontracker.org/taxpayers-may-have-to-pay-280-billion-in-onshore-plugging-costs-for-oil-and-gas-wells/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrnobody_67</author><text>Negative externalities born by the public, but profits go to shareholders.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jlarocco</author><text>If we had a working government, we&amp;#x27;d raise their taxes and add registration fees to cover the costs.&lt;p&gt;In our actual government, though, their lobbiests would kill that immediately.</text></comment>
<story><title>Taxpayers may have to pay $280B in plugging costs for oil and gas wells</title><url>https://carbontracker.org/taxpayers-may-have-to-pay-280-billion-in-onshore-plugging-costs-for-oil-and-gas-wells/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mrnobody_67</author><text>Negative externalities born by the public, but profits go to shareholders.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhh__</author><text>Exactly, I really hope a coalition can form (around the world) between all opposed to this kind of policy (be they capitalists, anti-capitalists etc.). These corrupt distortions will kill the planet and harm the west.</text></comment>