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China will impose 15% tariffs on coal and liquefied natural gas from the US and 10% on crude oil, agricultural machinery and certain types of heavy-duty vehicles. (www.lemonde.fr)
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[–] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Well they're getting oil and coal for cheap from Russia. They can afford it

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 hours ago

Also their whole strategy is to move away from fossil fuels, and putting a tax on fossils helps with that.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

Comrade Trump is fighting climate change by reducing demand for fossil fuels?

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago

Hey, I've seen this episode before!

[–] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Hell yea. 100% taxes for all import and export of fossil fuels same with SUVs.