love that" hit me with your worst shot" very good. I''ll do my best to hit you with my worst shot then.
I can't seem to understand how MCC for example, or any of the other coal producers are subsidised when they have paid for exploration rights, mining leases, paid for the infrastructure (all tax deductable, like any other business), pay their workers the going rate, pay for transport to the port, pay port charges (which may go towards port expansion, so no subsidy there), the buyer pays for shipping if the the contracts are FOB.
Now where in that chain of production is the subsidy, over and above any that a wind farm for example might get? Lets not be so picky as to include apprentice TAFE training, as a wind farm would still need skilled personnel.Nor should we be picky enough to include the roads that the workers drive on to the mine as the same would be provided to a wind farm.
We come to the pollution bit, the monetization of pollution. Fair enough, if you like, (we'll ignore the "pollution" involved in making the wind turbines, the steel for example, made in a blast furnace with iron ore and............. coal......sorry about that back to the story)but we now have to monetize life as China for example is a pretty cold place in the winter and if you don't burn something to stay warm you will die. What is your value of a Chinese life?
