thanks, to answer the question in your signature. Subsidies are given to oil, gas and coal during the exploration phase because governments know that they get much more back in the form royalties if resources are found and developed. As someone who has worked on NW Shelf gas developments I can assure you developing gas fields is extremely difficult.
I'm done debating with lefties, you want to try collectivism and renewables, as if it's going to end differently here in Australia versus everywhere else in the world, good luck.
