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[thriftwy]

A centralized subsidy system have been shut down.

Yet another argument against government intervention in trade. Buying and selling should be possible without mandatory step to synchronously notify a govt agency.

Also a slight argument against populist fuel subsidies in petrocracies.

[toxik → thriftwy]

You can have a central subsidy system that is not synchronous.

[skeeter2020 → toxik]

Not without giving up some of that "central". Yours would be an "eventually central" subsidy system.

[londons_explore → thriftwy]

I assume the centralisation is to prevent someone taking the subsidized fuel and either taking it out of the country, or selling it back to a refineary to claim the same subsidy twice for the same fuel.

[thriftwy → londons_explore]

This always happens when you start to give out free money.

[space_rock → thriftwy]

Populist fuel subsidies that also destroy our planet. Iran has the 8th highest CO2 emissions at 642,560,030 tons